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

They then went island hopping eastwards across the Indonesian archipelago before doubling back to Lombok for a second stay.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 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

That is true, for instance, of the Societies, Samoa, the Marquesas, and especially Hawaii, the Polynesian archipelago with the highest mountains.

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

The results are archipelagoes like the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain and parts of the Iceland Plateau.

From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2022

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

Deep in Madame’s voice, Marie-Laure hears water: atolls and archipelagoes and lagoons and fjords.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

Governments in these places are also investing in infrastructure to improve connectivity, which is essential in vast archipelagos like Indonesia and the Philippines.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 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