Islands

[Lorcan]

The answers are islands (and may well be pretty obscure):

1 Hot and humid
2 Commercial island
3 Everyone this way please
4 Gidley King
5 A children's ride
6 A glass of rum
7 Bun pennies
8 The Saints
9 Happy Islands
10 Schools have these
11 The animal jumps well

[Phil7]

6 = Tot Island (in GB, apparently)

[logophile]

4. Norfolk Island

Logophile

[brokenbank]

4. Norfolk Island

[logophile]

8. ? Holy Island

[logophile]

1. Tropical

[logophile]

11. Kangaroo Island

[logophile]

10. Reunion

Logophile

[Lorcan]

Thanks.I actually already have a Holy Island (for the clue sacred) and a Norfolk Island (clue was County in England.) Looked at wiki and am definitely going with Norfolk for Gidley King though.

[SYRAC]

8. THE SAINTS nickname for Southampton football club. Southampton Island in Hudson River

[SYRAC]

There's Devon Island and Somerset Island in Canada - county in England and also Banks Island and Bylot Island (buylot!) would either be your commercial island?

[SYRAC]

5. Carousel Island/Ile du Corossol in Canada (Quebec)

[bridgenut]

7) Could be Victoria Island , the bun referring to the hair style of Queen Victoria on the old 1d coins .

[SYRAC]

Victorian pennies were known as Bun Pennies, in circulation between 1860-1894 .

[SYRAC]

9. Did you know the Greeks and Romans called The Canary Islands the happy islands? Any good?

[Lorcan]

One of the clues was the rather obvious looking 'yellow bird' and I put Canaries for that.

[SYRAC]

1. Sauna Island, Dominican Republic

[Lorcan]

Thanks SYRAC. Google came up with Sauna Island being just off Helsinki actually

[SYRAC]

I was never very good at geography, sorry. Someone must have moved it!

[SYRAC]

9. The Happy Islands of Vanuatu/Tonga.