archipelago

Example Sentences

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The Dutch government said the ship stopped at St Helena on its way to Cape Verde, an archipelago nation off the West African coast.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

Megan Brief, a digital marketing coordinator for Natural Habitat Adventures, an ecotourism company, had just returned from Svalbard, a far-flung Norwegian archipelago teeming with polar bears and walruses.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2026

Washington later reiterated its neutrality over the contested sovereignty of the Falkland Islands between Argentina and Britain, which fought a short but bloody war over the archipelago in 1982 that Britain won.

From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026

“How could you treat people like this?” says Louis Olivier Bancoult, who left the archipelago at age 4 and now heads the Chagos Refugees Group in Mauritius.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

An island of the archipelago in the South Atlantic between North and South America, enclosing the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: divided into the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Bahama Islands.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison