archipelago
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Researchers then compared the model with real measurements from the Fram Strait, a passage between Greenland and the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
Tourism accounts for almost half of economic activity in the Balearics, the archipelago that Mallorca is part of, according to Exceltur, a tourism non-profit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
He was fascinated by how people could survive on the archipelago, more than 100 miles north of the Scottish mainland.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Indonesia, a Southeast Asian archipelago nation, sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire, where the meeting of continental plates causes high volcanic and seismic activity.
From Barron's ● Sep. 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
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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
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
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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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
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
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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