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archipelago

[ahr-kuh-pel-uh-goh] / ˌɑr kəˈpɛl əˌgoʊ /


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Pope Leo XIV, who is due to visit the Canary Islands next month, thanked the Atlantic archipelago for its solidarity during a Sunday prayer at the Vatican.

From Barron's • May 10, 2026

The Dutch government said the ship stopped at St Helena on its way to Cape Verde, an archipelago nation off the West African coast.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

The Turkish travel vlogger had boarded the ship in Ushuaia, Argentina, on April 1 to do a story about one of its stops, Tristan da Cunha, the remote archipelago in the South Atlantic.

From Barron's • May 6, 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

They would emerge a short distance away, sometimes three or four of them, a short­lived archipelago of volcanic islands.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel




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