Atlantic Ocean Island Countries

"Name all the countries whose territory lies mostly on islands in the Atlantic Ocean." Well, Denmark owns the largest island in the Atlantic and Greenland is many times the size of mainland Denmark, so one could argue that Denmark lies mostly on islands in the Atlantic Ocean.

And they own Zealand, Fyn, North Jutland etc.

Jutland is the only part NOT on an islands. Greenland, Faroe Islands and all those other islands make it very much *mostly* an island country. Sort of. I tried Denmark. (And almost forgot about Ireland even though I had UK.)

Reading about the Danish Realm, it seems clear to me that Greenland and Faroe Islands are not sovereign countries and are part of Denmark according to the constitution, they also have regular representatives in the Danish parliament. They are countries only in the sense similar to British regions and the devolution is quite similar to Scotland, Wales and NI.

So I think we deserve a caveat if Denmark is excluded :)

Why add a caveat and not just add Denmark? Is there some reason we keep ignoring the biggest island on the planet? Mercator envy?

It makes total sense to omit Denmark here as it's hardly ever considered to be a country of more than 2 million sqkm since no one ever includes Greenland's area in Denmark's. Adding Denmark wouldn't prevent a discussion either unless QM added a caveat explicitly saying that overseas territories are included (actually not even then would the discussions stop, as this situation shows). No, the quiz is fine the way it is in my opinion.

@JoshPen Fact check, Australia is technically the biggest island on the planet. Barely anybody lives in Greenland, and if you go there you don’t say "Guess what, I just got back from Denmark!" It is almost impossible to get there, and its population is not much bigger than the population of the Faroe Islands.

I won't get into the Australia bit, but the population of an island doesn't change how big or important to a quiz it is.

Afro-Eurasia is the biggest island in the world.

Just for the record, Denmark proper (excluding Greenland and the Faroes), is narrowly a majority non-island country by area. The Danish-owned Jutland Peninsula covers around 25,000 km2 compared to a bit over 19,000 km2 for the combined area of the islands.

An interesting point is that in 1825 the balance tipped more in favour of the islands, when a flood permanently split off the North Jutlandic Island from the peninsula, adding about 4600 km2 to the island column. Still, in the absence of another such event, the mainland still wins over the islands.

Population-wise, it's a different story with a bit over 3.4 million of Denmark's 5.75 million living on the islands - 2.2 million on Zealand alone.

And one can argue the Kiel Canal, but that would be silly.

@MasterKenobi that isn't the greatest analogy though as Hawaii and French Guiana have a different status than overseas territories like the British Virgin Islands and Greenland. Technically, you could say that France is located in both Europe, South America, North America, and Africa, as its territories there are departments, with the same status as France's mainland departments, whilst its other territories span into Oceania and Antarctica. The same goes with Hawaii. Obviously one wouldn't typically consider France to be anything other than European, but there is still a political distinction between its overseas regions and overseas collectivities.

aCTUaLLY eVERy OceAn iS CoNNECtEd tO tHe ATlAnTIc ocEAN !

Please don't kill me

Ocean doesnt = sea

Great quiz.

Good feeling when you can't get the last 3 with only 10 seconds remaining and then you remember you're missing all of the St's.

thats a lot of saints, god be with you

(badum tss)

The Mediterranean is a part of the Atlantic ocean. Just like the Baltic sea and the Caribbean sea for example.

I sincerely hope that was sarcasm.

I can't believe the only one I forgot was Cape Verde! I was literally going to type that as my first answer but somehow I didn't, my ignorant brain of mine.

Ireland and Iceland are mixed up. Otherwise, great quiz!

I had no idea Cuba was that big! Damn you Mercator!

Cuba is the biggest island in the Caribbean

Awesome quiz

Nothing like getting all but the largest and third largest beating you head against the desk going "There is no island outside of Greenland in the Mediterranean, Caribbean and Atlantic bigger than Cuba. Oh yeah there is THAT place."

Same thing happened to me. I couldn't for the life of me figure out what I was missing. I was thinking other than all the Canadian islands, which are way larger than Cuba, (but clearly not more than half of Canada) what else I was missing? I then started thinking that all the dutch islands plus their reclaimed land maybe counted, or all the UK islands ... oh wait...

Can’t believe Cuba is bigger than Ireland & Iceland!

The Mediterranean might technically be part of the Atlantic, but for all intents and purposes it’s a different body of water. Cut Cyprus and Malta.

It's not a lake, it's not connected to any other ocean, it's part of the Atlantic.

Great quiz. I hope we see this done for the rest of the oceans.

"Countries" on JetPunk almost always refers to sovereign states. This is one of those times.

Somehow I read part of the first caveat, and the second caveat, and my mind did not register that the Mediterranean counted... Genius...

Great Quiz!!!

Man I was wondering for ages what twelve of the answers were but then I was like wait a sec, does the Caribbean count.

Sao Tome and Principe should turn into São Tomé and Principé

Malta is there.

Are you sure that Cuba is larger than Iceland?

well, if you wanna be really accurate then all seas and oceans are connected together. Why didn't you just add all island countries lol.