| AZORES | The -; archipelago including Flores, Santa Maria and Santa Miguel the "Green Island" that is an autonomous region of Portugal (6) |
| SAOMIGUEL | Largest and most populous of the Azores, nicknamed 'The Green Island' (3,6) |
| NINA | Ship, along with the Santa Maria and Pinta, that sailed with Columbus in 1492 (4) |
| PINTA | Santa Maria and Nina's sister ship |
| SUNDA | Lesser - Islands; archipelago including Bali, Flores and Timor which forms part of the biogeographical region known as Wallacea (5) |
| BAHAMAS | The -; archipelago of some 700 tropical islands including Bird Cay and Cat Island which is also home to "Pig Beach" (7) |
| TSUSHIMA | Name of the archipelago off the coast of southeastern Japan in the Korea Strait. In 1905 a Russian fleet was defeated by Japan in a battle of the same name, which took place north of the islands. (8) |
| LAMOTTE | Tidal island also called Green Island on the SouthEast coast of Jersey (2,5) |
| PEMBA | "Green Island" forming part of the Zanzibar archipelago, where cloves are of one of its main cash crops (5) |
| EASTINDIES | The Malay Archipelago, including the Philippines, now more commonly called South East Asia (4,6) |
| DAMPIER | William, English navigator and pirate after whom the - Archipelago in N.W. Australia is named (7) |
| REVENGE | The ?, Alfred Tennyson poem about Sir Richard Grenville and the 1591 Battle of Flores with the Spanish fleet in the Azores (7) |
| SOCIETY | Archipelago including Bora-Bora and Tahiti, the ... Islands |
| OUTERHEBRIDES | Archipelago including Barra, the Uists and Benbecula |
| PUFFIN | Known collectively as a circus, species of auk found on archipelagos including the Faroe Islands and Isles of Scilly (6) |
| SPITSBERGEN | The main island within the archipelago of Svalbard (11) |
| FIREENGINE | Emergency vehicle is striking when touring unusually green island (4,6) |
| ADVERTISER | A green island owned by the German commercial developer (10) |
| KILDA | The archipelago of St ___ is known for its huge gannet colony (5) |
| HEBRIDES | The -, archipelago of over 500 islands off the NW coast of Scotland (8) |
