archipelago
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The crew found itself off the coast of Palau, an archipelago of some 340 small islands in the Pacific with a total land area of 189 square miles.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
The MV Hondius, carrying around 150 people, was anchored off Tenerife, the largest island in the archipelago near northwest Africa, Spain’s Health Ministry said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
The MV Hondius was denied its plans to dock in the West African archipelago, and remained anchored off its coast for several days before it set off towards the Canary Islands on Wednesday.
From BBC • May 8, 2026
I sailed aboard the MV Hondius in July 2019 on what was only its second voyage, around the Svalbard archipelago in the Norwegian Arctic.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
The archipelago was “black, dismal-looking heaps...of broken lava, forming a shore fit for pandemonium,” the captain wrote.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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