archipelago
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The same day a senior partner at Wikborg put in a call to the office of the Svalbard governor—the top law-enforcement official on the Arctic archipelago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
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
With just a few hours on the remote archipelago before flying back to Fiji, there was a rush from organisers to get in as many events as possible.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Culebra is an archipelago off the coast of Puerto Rico.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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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
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
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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
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
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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