Five remote islands that will rub shoulders with the Commonwealth Games giants

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Mega-nations and microscopic atolls will rub shoulders when the Commonwealth Games get underway with the opening ceremony in Gold Coast on Wednesday.

Here Press Association Sport picks out five island competitors so remote you would be hard pushed to pinpoint them in the pages of an Atlas.

NIUE

Niue
Niue has previously competed in Rugby Sevens (Tony Marshall/EMPICS)

ST HELENA

St Helena Airport
St Helena’s athletes have benefited from the island’s first airport (Royal Navy)

NORFOLK ISLAND

Sport – 2014 Commonwealth Games – Day Two
Norfolk Island’s Richard Cribb in action (EMPICS)

KIRIBATI

COMMONWEALTH Islands
Remote islands sending athletes to the Commonwealth Games. See story COMMONWEALTH Islands. Infographic from PA Graphics

NAURU

Nauru
Weightlifting is the national sport in Nauru (Phil Noble/PA)

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