archipelago
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Russia has long maintained a presence on the archipelago, which became sovereign Norwegian territory a century ago but is governed by a treaty that allows almost any country to do business there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
The lease sales will cover approximately 31 million acres over two areas off the US Pacific archipelago, with bidding set for November 19.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 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
The Seses are a low-lying forested archipelago in the northwestern part of Lake Victoria, an easy boat ride from Entebbe.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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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 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
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
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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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
Threading your way around the installations, which mimic a passage deep into the jungle toward hidden human settlements, Salgado’s backlit, black-and-white images of sculptural rubber trees, massive freshwater archipelagos and cloud-shrouded mountains envelop you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 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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