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Answers for 7 September 2026

Atlas Daily #6, Monday 7 September 2026: five places, each with clues from hardest to easiest. Try to name each place before you open the answers.

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The clues

Round 1

  1. Settled by Polynesian voyagers around 1300, it was the last major landmass humans reached.
  2. Its women won the vote in 1893, the first in the world to do so at national level.
  3. A flightless nocturnal bird has become the nickname for its people.
  4. Its two main islands are separated by a strait named after the captain who charted them.
Hint: which continent?

Oceania

Round 2

  1. A Latin-speaking island in a sea of Slavic and Hungarian neighbours, ringed by the Carpathians.
  2. Its 15th-century prince Vlad III inspired a Victorian novel's vampire.
  3. Its 1989 revolution ended with the execution of its dictator on Christmas Day.
  4. The Danube delta, Europe's largest wetland, spreads across its eastern coast.
Hint: which continent?

Europe

Round 3

  1. A ribbon of land 4,300 kilometres long and on average under 180 kilometres wide.
  2. It holds the driest non-polar desert on Earth and the world's largest copper reserves.
  3. A 1973 coup ended democratic rule for 17 years.
  4. Thirty-three miners were rescued from a collapsed mine after 69 days underground in 2010.
Hint: which continent?

South America

Round 4

  1. A desert country with the second-lowest population density in the world and some of its highest dunes.
  2. It was a German colony from 1884 until 1915, then administered by its southern neighbour until 1990.
  3. A cold ocean current keeps its coast foggy and littered with shipwrecks and whale bones.
  4. A strip of land in its north-east reaches 450 kilometres toward the Zambezi.
Hint: which continent?

Africa

Round 5

  1. A Caucasus nation that claims the oldest wine-making tradition, with 8,000-year-old residues in clay jars.
  2. Its alphabet is used for no other language and was listed as UNESCO intangible heritage in 2016.
  3. It fought a five-day war with its northern neighbour in 2008.
  4. It shares its name with a state in the United States.
Hint: which continent?

Asia

Answers

Round 1 answer

New Zealand · Oceania

Clue 5: The location is New Zealand.

Māori arrived in about 1300 from eastern Polynesia; Europeans followed in the 1640s and 1760s. The Electoral Act of 1893 gave all women the right to vote in national elections. The kiwi cannot fly, lays an egg a fifth of its body weight, and lent its name to everyone who lives here.

Round 2 answer

Romania · Europe

Clue 5: The location is Romania.

Romanian descends from the Latin of the Roman province of Dacia, alone among the Balkan languages. Vlad Țepeș fought the Ottomans and became Bram Stoker's Dracula. Nicolae Ceaușescu was tried and shot on 25 December 1989.

Round 3 answer

Chile · South America

Clue 5: The location is Chile.

From Arica to Cape Horn the country spans 38 degrees of latitude. Parts of the Atacama have recorded no rain for decades, and its copper mines supply about a quarter of world output. The San José mine rescue in October 2010 was watched by an estimated billion people.

Round 4 answer

Namibia · Africa

Clue 5: The location is Namibia.

Around 2.6 million people live in an area larger than France and the United Kingdom together. The Namib is thought to be the oldest desert on Earth, and the dunes at Sossusvlei reach over 300 metres. The Caprivi Strip was drawn in 1890 so that German South West Africa could reach the Zambezi.

Round 5 answer

Georgia · Asia

Clue 5: The location is Georgia.

Qvevri, large clay vessels buried underground, still ferment wine as they did in the Neolithic. Mkhedruli is one of only a handful of scripts invented independently rather than adapted from another. The August 2008 war left Abkhazia and South Ossetia under Russian control.

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