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 has previously competed in Rugby Sevens (Tony Marshall/EMPICS)
ST HELENA
St Helena’s athletes have benefited from the island’s first airport (Royal Navy)
NORFOLK ISLAND
Norfolk Island’s Richard Cribb in action (EMPICS)
KIRIBATI
Remote islands sending athletes to the Commonwealth Games. See story COMMONWEALTH Islands. Infographic from PA Graphics
NAURU
Weightlifting is the national sport in Nauru (Phil Noble/PA)
