archipelago
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The MV Hondius is now sailing towards Spain's Canary Islands after being anchored for three days near Cape Verde, an archipelago nation off the West African coast.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
Megan Brief, a digital marketing coordinator for Natural Habitat Adventures, an ecotourism company, had just returned from Svalbard, a far-flung Norwegian archipelago teeming with polar bears and walruses.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2026
Washington later reiterated its neutrality over the contested sovereignty of the Falkland Islands between Argentina and Britain, which fought a short but bloody war over the archipelago in 1982 that Britain won.
From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026
The archipelago switched to British control in the 1814 Treaty of Paris, which briefly paused the Napoleonic Wars.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
They peered over the bridge and saw the Antarctic archipelago at their feet, craned their necks and saw a giant metal star overhead.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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