| NAURU | Small island republic in the South West Pacific, west of Kiribati (5) |
| TONGA | A kingdom occupying an archipelago of more than 150 volcanic and coral islands in the South West Pacific (5) |
| CHINA | The - Sea is the part of the West Pacific between Korea and the Philippines (5) |
| ATOLL | One of 32 in the country of Kiribati |
| PALAU | Island republic in the western Pacific Ocean (5) |
| SAMOA | South-west Pacific nation |
| HAITI | Hawaii embraces small island republic (5) |
| FIJI | An independent republic consisting of a number of islands in the South West Pacific (4) |
| MALTA | Island republic in the Mediterranean (5) |
| VITILEVU | Largest island of Fiji, in the South Pacific west of the Koro Sea (4,4) |
| NEWGUINEA | Large island in the south-west Pacific (299,310 sq miles; pop about 12.5 million (3,6) |
| FIJIANS | Inhabitants of a country in the south-west Pacific (7) |
| SILVEREYE | Very small songbird of the South-West Pacific (9) |
| KINKAID | Thomas C., Commander Allied Naval Forces in the South West Pacific during World War II (7) |
| KIRIBATI | Island republic in the South Pacific, capital Bairiki (8) |
| VANUATU | Country of the south-west Pacific |
| GALAPAGOS | _ Islands, a group of islands in the Pacific west of Ecuador (9) |
| TARAWA | Coral atoll of the Gilbert Islands in the westcentral Pacific Ocean; location of Bairiki, the administrative centre of Kiribati (6) |
| 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) |
| CAPEVERDE | An island republic in the Atlantic off the coast of West Africa (4,5) |
