archipelago

A rich collection of living and fossilized corals is present in the Galapagos Islands, the volcanic archipelago off the west coast of Ecuador, right at the heart of the eastern Pacific El Nino zone.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Rosemary and Peter Grant, a married pair of evolutionary biologists who studied songbirds on Daphne Major, a small volcanic island in the Galápagos archipelago, are the subjects of Jonathan Weiner’s “The Beak of the Finch.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Marine accidents are a regular occurrence in Indonesia -- an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands that rely heavily on boat connections.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

On St Kilda, before the archipelago was abandoned in 1930, birds were killed for their meat and also oils for fuel and waterproofing, while the feathers were used for clothing and bedding.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

Consider: The greentime, the noontime of the archipelago.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

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

The sun set long ago on the British Empire, with the exception of a few wind-battered archipelagoes scattered around the oceans.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 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

Later he became a fully qualified British master mariner, and travelled the world, particularly the archipelagoes and peninsulas of South-East Asia, where many of his tales are set.

From Economist ● Nov. 2, 2017

At first, Japan might seem to be geographically very similar to Britain, both being large archipelagoes flanking the Eurasian continent on the east and the west respectively.

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

Is it a spoiler to share that a tsunami has wiped out most of Europe, leaving scattered archipelagos as repositories of things once known?

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025

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

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