archipelago
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Land is already so scarce across the archipelago -- halfway between Australia and Hawaii -- that the international airport runway doubles as a makeshift sports field.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
The three movements include “an invocation to hands that weave”; “a meeting of foams, needles, songs, threats and pulsations”; and what Negrón calls “an archipelago of resonances and possibilities.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
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
"They are sons of the soil," said HGS Dhaliwal, police chief of the archipelago.
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
The Philippines is an archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean consisting of more than seven thousand islands, many of them uninhabited.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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