archipelago
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The archipelago is administered by Russia, but four of the southernmost islands are claimed by Japan, which calls them the Northern Territories.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 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
Military analysts, for instance, say it has established electronic warfare units on an archipelago of man-made islands in the South China Sea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Researchers then compared the model with real measurements from the Fram Strait, a passage between Greenland and the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 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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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 results are archipelagoes like the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain and parts of the Iceland Plateau.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2022
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
The distances between islands of the Tongan archipelago, as well as the distances between Tonga and neighboring archipelagoes, were sufficiently modest that a multi-island empire encompassing 40,000 people was eventually established.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
Governments in these places are also investing in infrastructure to improve connectivity, which is essential in vast archipelagos like Indonesia and the Philippines.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 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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