archipelago

About 250 polar bears were counted in the archipelago during the last scientific estimate, carried out in 2015.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

The Soviet Union took the strategically located volcanic archipelago north of Hokkaido in the final days of World War II, and has maintained a military presence there ever since.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

Those personnel fanned across the archipelago nation, carrying out a wider range of activities than in the past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

Experts at Chester Zoo said they had to brave treacherous conditions and climb cliffs to return them to their natural home, which is part of the Madeira archipelago in the Atlantic ocean.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 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

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

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

The two leaders, noted for their tough approach to drug offenders, signed an agreement to strengthen cooperation on maritime security in the volatile Sulu Sea separating the two archipelagoes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2016

The distances between islands of the Tongan archipelago, as well as the distances between Tonga and neighboring archipelagoes, were sufficiently modest that a multi-island empire encompassing 40,000 people was eventually established.

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

Vietnam is one of several countries to clash with China in the disputed South China Sea, particularly on two archipelagos, the Spratlys and the Paracel Islands.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 11, 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