archipelago
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They then went island hopping eastwards across the Indonesian archipelago before doubling back to Lombok for a second stay.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 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
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
Rising sea levels have already largely swamped two of Tuvalu's nine coral atolls -- and scientists fear the entire archipelago could be unliveable by the end of the century.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 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
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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
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
Building on Wilson’s insights, scientists have discovered dozens of additional hot spots around the globe, accounting for other archipelagoes such as the Galapagos Islands and the Azores.
From Washington Post ● May 29, 2018
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
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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
Threading your way around the installations, which mimic a passage deep into the jungle toward hidden human settlements, Salgado’s backlit, black-and-white images of sculptural rubber trees, massive freshwater archipelagos and cloud-shrouded mountains envelop you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 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
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