| OKINAWA | Largest of the Ryukyu Islands in the North Pacific that was a scene of heavy fighting in World War II |
| ESSENCE | There was a scene in the last movie I saw, set in Sidmouth, which really captured the flavour of the place (7) |
| MURRELET | Small auk of the north Pacific that might be long-billed or marbled (8) |
| IWOJIMA | Island in the West Pacific that was the scene of prolonged fighting between Japan and the US in the Second World War (3,4) |
| NIUE | The "Rock of Polynesia" in the South Pacific that is one of the largest coral atolls in the world (4) |
| SOMME | River in N. France which was the scene of heavy fighting in World War I (5) |
| HELIGOLAND | One of the North Frisian Islands in the North Sea that was ceded by Britain to Germany in 1890 in exchange for Zanzibar (10) |
| YSER | River that was the scene of heavy fighting in World War I |
| PASSCHENDAELE | Village in NW Belgium that was scene of heavy fighting in World War I (13) |
| NAHA | Port in S Japan which is the chief city of the Ryukyu Islands (4) |
| GUADALCANAL | Province and island of the Solomon Islands in the S.W. Pacific that contains the country's capital H |
| FIJI | Archipelago in the South Pacific that includes the islands of Vatuvara and Taveuni, and the coral mass Rainbow Reef (4) |
| ATOLL | Bikini -- is situated in the Marshall Islands in the North Pacific (5) |
| BIKINI | Atoll in the Marshall islands in the North Pacific (6) |
| PHILIPPINES | Island country in the western Pacific that was proclaimed independent on July 4, 1946, with Manuel Roxas as its first president |
| MADEIRA | Group of volcanic islands in the North Atlantic, west of Morocco; an autonomous region of Portugal (7) |
| EASTCHINASEA | Something west of the Ryukyu Islands |
| ELNINO | An occasional warming of the eastern tropical Pacific that disrupts the weather pattern of the regio |
| NEWGUINEA | Island in the SW Pacific that houses the Indonesian province of West Irian Jaya (3,6) |
| FAEROES | A group of islands in the North Atlantic (7) |
