| NANTUCKET | Island off SE Massachusetts, US that was formerly a centre of the whaling industry (9) |
| REPLICATE | Island off SE Massachusetts, US; a former centre of the whaling industry (9) |
| MISSOURI | State in the Midwest region of the US that was the birthplace of Mark Twain |
| CAPECOD | Long sandy peninsula in SE Massachusetts, US (4,3) |
| ALAMO | Mission in San Antonio. Texas, US that was site of a siege and massacre in 1836 (5) |
| NOME | City in Alaska, US that was a gold rush town from 1899 to 1903 (4) |
| MADAGASCAR | Island off SE Africa |
| KETTERING | Town in Northamptonshire, formerly a centre of the footwear industry (9) |
| UNALASKA | Island off SW Alaska that was formerly a centre of the Russian fur trade (8) |
| STRANRAER | Town that was formerly a ferry port. connecting Scotland with Belfast and Larne in Northern Ireland (9) |
| TORTUGA | Island in the Caribbean off the NW coast of Haiti that was formerly a haunt of pirates (7) |
| SHARJAH | Member of the United Arab Emirates that was formerly a British protectorate (7) |
| CORDOBA | Andalusian city with a cathedral (the Mezquita) that was formerly a mosque (7) |
| SOUTHGEORGIA | Barren island 800 miles southeast of the Falklands where the whaling port of Leith was abandoned in 1966 (5,7) |
| AHAB | One-legged captain of the whaling vessel Pequod in the 1851 Herman Melville novel Moby Dick (4) |
| HONG | and 21 Special Administrative Region of China that was formerly a British Crown Colony (4,4) |
| TAIWAN | Island off southeast China formerly known as Formosa (6) |
| SALEM | Historic coastal city in Massachusetts, US, and site of the famous witch trials of 1692-3 (5) |
| GRANDBANKS | Submarine plateau of the continental shelf off SE Newfoundland, Canada (5,5) |
| MACAU | Island near Hong Kong that was formerly a Portuguese colony |
