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Expedition · Oceania

Expedition #1159

Region
Oceania
Level
Medium
Questions
9
Route
25,620 km
  1. Leg 1Find the country · 4
  2. Leg 2Name the country · 3
  3. Leg 3Bigger or smaller · 2

On expedition #1159 you cross Oceania at the Medium level. The route has 11 stops spread over 9 questions in three legs: Find the country (4 questions), Name the country (3 questions) and finally Bigger or smaller (2 questions).

At the Medium level most of the region is in play and the wrong options are fellow countries of the same continent.

Capital to capital, in question order, the route covers 25,620 km over 10 hops.

Tips from the window seat

After the landing

Finish the third leg and the expedition is stamped in your passport; the button for expedition #1160 appears right under the quiz.

Flight log: stops, route and figures (shows the answers)
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The stops in the order the questions bring them, with the distance from the previous one.

  1. 1VanuatuPort Vila
  2. 2Solomon IslandsHoniara1,290 km
  3. 3Papua New GuineaPort Moresby1,400 km
  4. 4TongaNukuʻalofa4,230 km
  5. 5Nauru3,000 km
  6. 6MicronesiaPalikir1,280 km
  7. 7Marshall IslandsMajuro1,460 km
  8. 8PalauNgerulmud4,050 km
  9. 9TuvaluFunafuti5,240 km
  10. 10KiribatiSouth Tarawa1,290 km
  11. 11SamoaApia2,380 km

Capital to capital, the route runs 25,620 km, from Vanuatu to Samoa. Longest hop: Palau – Tuvalu, 5,240 km. Shortest: Nauru – Micronesia, 1,280 km.

Most people among the stops: Papua New Guinea (10.8 million); fewest: Tuvalu (9,492). Largest: Papua New Guinea (462,840 km²); smallest: Nauru (21 km²).

Source: World Bank — population 2025, area 2023.

The stops lie in 3 UN subregions: Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia.

Where the quiz names no capital (Israel, Yemen, Nauru and the city-states), the route passes through the middle of the country.

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