Mako is a Māori word from New Zealand for the shark or its tooth; Samoans say mago and Hawaiians manō. The shortfin mako is the fastest known shark and is famous for leaping high out of the water when hooked.
📍 Greenland
Anorak comes from Greenlandic anoraq, a hooded, waterproof jacket. English adopted it in 1924, and by the 1980s British slang also used it for a socially awkward nerd.
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📍 Malay Peninsula & Sumatra
Durian comes from Malay duri, 'thorn', after the fruit's spiky husk. Called the 'king of fruits' in some regions, it smells so strong that Singapore bans it on its metro trains.
📍 Canary Islands, Spain
Canaries are named after the Canary Islands off north-west Africa, where the wild birds still live. The islands came first: their Latin name, Canariae Insulae, is usually read as 'islands of dogs', and Pliny linked it to big dogs found there.
📍 Queensland–New South Wales border, Australia
Cut a finger lime open and out spill tiny juicy pearls that chefs call 'lime caviar'. This wild citrus grows in the coastal rainforests between Brisbane and the Clarence River in eastern Australia, in colours from green to pink and red.
📍 New Guinea
Sugarcane was first domesticated in New Guinea. Austronesian voyagers spread it across the Pacific and west to India, where Alexander's admiral Nearchus marvelled at “reeds that produce honey without bees”.
📍 Norfolk Island (Australia), South Pacific
This 'living Christmas tree' isn't a true pine, and it grows wild only on tiny Norfolk Island, between New Zealand and New Caledonia. In 1774 Captain Cook hoped its tall, straight trunks would make ship masts, but the wood wasn't tough enough.