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Answers for 14 September 2026

Atlas Daily #13, Monday 14 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 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 3

  1. An island that sits on the seam between two tectonic plates and widens by about two centimetres a year.
  2. Its parliament, founded in 930, is often called the oldest still in existence.
  3. It has no standing army and heats most homes with water from the ground.
  4. A volcanic eruption here grounded European air traffic for a week in 2010.
Hint: which continent?

Europe

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. One of only two doubly landlocked countries, whose cities lit the Silk Road with blue-tiled domes.
  2. Its cotton monoculture under Soviet rule drained one of the world's largest lakes.
  3. A conqueror who built a 14th-century empire made Samarkand his capital.
  4. Its cities include Bukhara, Khiva and Samarkand.
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

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 3 answer

Iceland · Europe

Clue 5: The location is Iceland.

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge runs across the island, visible as a rift at Þingvellir where the Althing first met in 930. About 90% of homes are heated geothermally. The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull ash cloud cancelled around 100,000 flights.

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

Uzbekistan · Asia

Clue 5: The location is Uzbekistan.

Liechtenstein is the other doubly landlocked state. Irrigation for cotton diverted the Amu Darya and Syr Darya, and the Aral Sea shrank to a tenth of its 1960 area. Timur, known in the West as Tamerlane, ruled from Samarkand and lies in the Gur-e-Amir mausoleum.

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