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Island
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Refers to the whole of England, Scotland and Wales
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Great Britain
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It split from the Indian subcontinent around 88 million years ago ... over 90% of its wildlife is found nowhere else on Earth
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Madagascar
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Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Ajaccio
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Corsica
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The role of the Communist Party is enshrined in the Constitution
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Cuba
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The world's second-largest island and the largest wholly or partly in the Southern Hemisphere
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New Guinea
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Home to about two-thirds of the population of the U.S. state of Hawaii
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Oahu
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Officially the Republic of China
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Taiwan
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The least populated of the boroughs
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Staten Island
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Connected to Saudi Arabia by the 25-kilometre (16 mi) King Fahd Causeway
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Bahrain
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Separated from the mainland (Kowloon Peninsula and New Territories) by Victoria Harbour
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Hong Kong
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Has four official languages: English, Malay, Mandarin Chinese, and Tamil
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Singapore
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Still commonly known as Southern Philippines
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Mindanao
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They attributed the lack of large mammals such as bears, wolves, jackals, and poisonous snakes, to the labour of Hercules (who took the live bull to the Peloponnese)
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Crete
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The historical center of Japanese cultural and political power
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Honshu
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The 1970s were marked by the Cod Wars—several disputes with the United Kingdom over the extension of its fishing limits
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Iceland
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French: Maurice [mɔʁis, moʁis] ; Creole: Moris [moʁis]
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Mauritius
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Together with Bonaire and Curaçao, it forms a group referred to as the ABC islands
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Aruba
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The site of the city of _______, it is located at the confluence of the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa rivers
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Montreal
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An increase in direct international flights to Christchurch, Dunedin and Queenstown has boosted the number of overseas tourists
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South Island
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Was the setting for the 1986 film The Karate Kid Part II, in which Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita) returns home
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Okinawa
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I don't quite get you problem, the flights are going from outside (probably mostly Australia) TO the airports on South island. Why should they increase tourism on let's say North island? Or the other way around, why should flights to Auckland and Wellington increase tourism to South island?
(Not that I would have got Staten Island anyway.)
I'm sure there's a quiz waiting to be made about this stuff
It should be "venomous" snakes. It's easy to remember: "If you bite it and you die, it's poisonous, if it bites you and you die, it's venomous."