archipelago

More than 40 years after the war over the territory, sovereignty of the archipelago in the south-west Atlantic Ocean remains hotly disputed between Britain and Argentina.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

In a country known for its partisan divisions, no issue unifies Argentines across the political spectrum more than the Falkland Islands, an archipelago in the south Atlantic that Argentina has long claimed as its own.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

The Maldives archipelago consists of more than a thousand islands, many of which are home to a single hotel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

Yet counting all species together, there were still no more than perhaps a million humans living between the Indonesian archipelago and the Iberian peninsula, a mere blip on the ecological radar.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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

In particular, the Tongan Archipelago lies close enough to the Fijian, Samoan, and Wallis Archipelagoes to have permitted regular voyaging between archipelagoes, and eventually to permit Tongans to undertake the conquest of Fiji.

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

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