archipelago
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A similar transition is happening in Ecuador’s Galápagos archipelago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
About 250 polar bears were counted in the archipelago during the last scientific estimate, carried out in 2015.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
The report estimated that rooftop installations had nearly doubled in the archipelago nation of 116 million since early 2025.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 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
“Hmm...The archipelago makes me think of travel. Perhaps you’ll be seeing the world soon. And the heart with little cracks in it...Perhaps you feel you’re giving away pieces of your heart?”
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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
Building on Wilson’s insights, scientists have discovered dozens of additional hot spots around the globe, accounting for other archipelagoes such as the Galapagos Islands and the Azores.
From Washington Post ● May 29, 2018
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
Deep in Madame’s voice, Marie-Laure hears water: atolls and archipelagoes and lagoons and fjords.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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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