Travel quiz: do you know your islands, Man Friday?

From the Hebrides to Antipodes … how are you on islands, isles and islets – archipelago-go-go or just no-no-no?

Great Britain is the world's ninth-biggest island, but how many times would it fit into the world's biggest island (not continent)?

5

7

10

20

Eelam is an indigenous name for which popular holiday island?

Isle of Man

Sri Lanka

Bali

Mauritius

This US suspension bridge links Brooklyn with which New York island?

Staten Island

Long Island

Manhattan

Roosevelt Island

Not every islander leaves gifts on this 'Fairy Bridge' but few ever cross it without discreetly greeting the 'little people'. Which island is it found on?

Isle of Wight

Isle of Mull

Tresco

Isle of Man

Providence is the capital of which island state?

Bermuda

Nova Scotia

Solomon Islands

Rhode Island

Which Mediterranean island's name is thought to come from words meaning honey-sweet?

Malta

Sicily

Milos

Zakynthos

In 1821 a Spanish Navy officer tried to sell which island to a US general for "a small sloop worth $575"?

Cuba

Puerto Rico

Key West

Haiti

These houses are in the capital of Aruba, an island visited by nearly 2 million US tourists every year. But which country does it belong to?

Spain

Venezuela

The Netherlands

France

This handsome medieval city centre is on an island in the Trave River. What is it called?

Ghent

Malmö

Lübeck

Utrecht

Ortygia island is the oldest part of a city visited by Plato, Pindar and Cicero, and home to the great mathematician and bath-lover Archimedes. Which city?

Corinth, Greece

Tyre, Lebanon

Ephesus, Turkey

Syracuse, Sicily

One country is home to three of the world's top 10 islands by size. Which country?

Indonesia

Russia

Canada

Japan

Which is the biggest island in the southern hemisphere?

New Zealand's South Island

Borneo

New Guinea

Madagascar

What do these islands have in common? Île aux Cygnes, France; Shui Keng Teng, Hong Kong; IJburg, The Netherlands; and Uros, Peru?

They are all artificial islands

They all sit in fresh, not salt, water

They disappear at high tide

They are all privately owned

Fort Boyard, a manmade island off France's Atlantic coast, is known for … ?

The TV series of the same name

The location for the 1967 film The Last Adventure

Being completely useless as a fortification by the time it was completed in 1857 because of artillery developments

All of the above

Sex and sunshine reality show Love Island looks set for an autumn revival, but given that Mallorca can be a bit chilly by then, where might the new series be filmed?

Cyprus

Malta

Turkey

The Canaries

11 and above.

Well done: we'd offer an island in the sun – if anyone could travel

0 and above.

Where have you been marooned?

6 and above.

Not bad – but no 'treasure'

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