| HOKKAIDO | Second largest island of Japan |
| TOHOKU | Northernmost region of Honshu, the largest island of Japan (6) |
| DISKO | Second-largest island of Greenland, site of Godhavn (5) |
| VANUALEVU | Second-largest island of Fiji, formerly Sandalwood Island |
| TSUSHIMA | Largest island of Japan's Nagasaki Prefecture, in the Korea Strait between Japan and South Korea (8) |
| HONSHU | The largest island of Japan |
| OKINAWA | Strategically important fifth-largest island of Japan (7) |
| MINDANAO | Second-largest island of the Philippines, known as the Land of Promise (8) |
| MULL | Second-largest island of the Inner Hebrides, on the Firth of Lorn (4) |
| HOY | Second largest island of the Orkney archipelago |
| MAUI | Second-largest island of Hawaii |
| EUBOEA | Second-largest island of Greece after Crete, in the western Aegean Sea (6) |
| OLAND | Second-largest island of Sweden, separated from the mainland by Kalmar Sound (5) |
| INLANDSEA | Body of water separating three of the four main islands of Japan (6,3) |
| AINU | What is a member of the indigenous race of the northern-most islands of Japan? (4) |
| KYUSHU | Southernmost and third largest of the four main islands of Japan. (6) |
| IWO | Volcanic island of Japan, ... Jima |
| SHIKOKU | Smallest of the four main islands of Japan |
| IRABU | One of the Miyako Islands of Japan |
| HONSHUWOLF | Extinct mammal, once native to certain islands of Japan (6, 4) |
