No Man is an Island

See question two.
Ursus arctos middendorffi.
Image Wildlife Trip.

The first date-related question sets a theme for the subsequent questions and/or answers.

One

Napoleon Bonaparte was strongly linked to three islands: (i) where he was born on 15 August 1769; (ii) where he was exiled in 1814 and subsequently escaped; and (iii) where he was exiled in 1815 and subsequently died. What are these islands and in what seas or oceans are they found?


Two

Ursus arctos middendorffi, the largest brown bear species, has a common name derived from an archipelago; which archipelago is it, and in what sea or ocean is it located?


Three

Puerto Ayora, also called Santa Cruz, is the largest town in which island group, and these islands are part of which country?


Four

Leaving in about 982 from Snæfellsjökull, one of the westernmost points of …, Erik and a small group of men reached land on the opposite shore of …, a land that had been skirted by the Norwegian Gunnbjörn Ulfsson earlier in the 10th century.
— Encyclopædia Britannica 

The above quote from Encyclopædia Britannica has had two island countries removed from it. What are these two countries?


Five

What is the second-largest Canadian island, and in what ocean is it found?


Good luck! I’ll post the answers later.


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