archipelago

On Nov. 4, 1986, the U.S. entered into political union with the Northern Mariana Islands, a tiny archipelago in the western Pacific that most Americans could not locate on a map.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026

Zavodovski is part of the South Sandwich Islands, a remote archipelago north of the Antarctic continent which is a UK overseas territory.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

But keeping pace with the international boom has proven tricky for the archipelago nation's overwhelmingly smallholder farmers, with yields declining and some unable to commit to the plant's nine-month growing time.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Military analysts, for instance, say it has established electronic warfare units on an archipelago of man-made islands in the South China Sea.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Perhaps their distinctive external appearance involves relatively few genes that arose through sexual selection after they migrated from mainland Asia and became isolated on the Japanese archipelago.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Around 12 million years ago, the development of the circumpolar current helped other penguin groups spread through the sub-Antarctic, eventually colonizing remote islands and archipelagoes and reaching as far north as Africa and South America.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Hanoi says it has actively ruled over the Paracels and the Spratlys archipelagoes since the 17th Century and that it has the documents to prove it.

From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2026

Someone must build archipelagoes of new cities in the far north and far south of the planet to house them.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2022

Over the last five years, 14 airfields have been opened or rebuilt along the Northern Sea Route; three fully autonomous bases have opened on Arctic archipelagoes.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2020

The distances between islands of the Tongan archipelago, as well as the distances between Tonga and neighboring archipelagoes, were sufficiently modest that a multi-island empire encompassing 40,000 people was eventually established.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Boasting nearly 700,000 islands collectively, Sweden, Norway and Finland are home to the most islands in the world, their coastlines dotted by archipelagos that have shaped their history and culture.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2025

Hundreds of thousands more breeding pairs of seabirds could return to remote island archipelagos if invasive rats were removed and native vegetation restored -- a new paper finds.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2024

Vietnam is one of several countries to clash with China in the disputed South China Sea, particularly on two archipelagos, the Spratlys and the Paracel Islands.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 11, 2023

The yacht Grazie Mamma II carried its crew along the coastlines and archipelagos of the Mediterranean.

From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2023

Miraculously it survives the humidity and our moves, with only a few unwarranted archipelagos of gray mold dotting its oceans.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver