English > archipelago: 1 sense > noun 1, object| Meaning | A group of many islands in a large body of water. |
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| Instances | Admiralty Islands | A group of islands in the Bismarck Archipelago |
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| Aland islands, Aaland islands, Ahvenanmaa | An archipelago of some 6,000 islands in the Gulf of Bothnia under Finnish control |
| Aleutian Islands, Aleutians | An archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwest from Alaska |
| Alexander Archipelago | A group of islands off southeastern Alaska |
| Antilles | A group of islands in the West Indies |
| Arctic Archipelago | All the islands that lie to the north of mainland Canada and the Arctic Circle |
| Australasia | Australia, New Zealand, and neighboring islands in the South Pacific |
| Austronesia | islands of central and South Pacific (Indonesia and Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia) |
| Balearic Islands | An archipelago in the western Mediterranean off the eastern coast of Spain |
| Bismarck Archipelago | A group of islands in the southwestern Pacific to the northeast of New Guinea |
| Cape Verde Islands | A group of islands in the Atlantic off of the coast of Senegal |
| Caroline Islands | A long archipelago of more than 500 islands in Micronesia to the east of the Philippines |
| Comoro Islands, Iles Comores | Three main islands and numerous islets in the Indian Ocean between Mozambique and Madagascar / Madagascar |
| Frisian Islands | A chain of islands in the North Sea off the coast of northwestern Europe extending from the IJsselmeer to Jutland |
| Gambier Islands | A group of islands in the south central Pacific |
| Gilbert Islands | A group of islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii |
| Greater Antilles | A group of islands in the western West Indies |
| Greater Sunda Islands | A chain of islands including Borneo and Celebes and Java and Sumatra |
| Hawaiian Islands, H.I., Sandwich Islands | A group of volcanic and coral islands in the central Pacific |
| Hebrides, Hebridean Islands, Hebridean Isles, Western Islands, Western Isles | A group of more than 500 islands off the western coast of Scotland |
| Inner Hebrides | islands between the Outer Hebrides and the western coast of Scotland |
| Japan, Japanese Islands, Japanese Archipelago | A string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean |
| Leeward Islands | A group of islands in the eastern West Indies |
| Lesser Antilles, Caribees | A group of islands in the southeastern West Indies |
| Lesser Sunda Islands, Nusa Tenggara | A chain of islands forming a province of Indonesia to the east of Java |
| Lofoten | A string of islands off the northwestern coast of Norway in the Norwegian Sea |
| Madeira Islands, Madeiras | A group of volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean to the west of Morocco |
| Malay Archipelago, East Indies, East India | A group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia |
| Mariana Islands, Marianas, Ladrone Islands | A chain of coral and volcanic islands in Micronesia (including Guam and the Northern Marianas) halfway between New Guinea and Japan |
| Marquesas Islands, Iles Marquises | A group of volcanic islands in the south central Pacific |
| Marshall Islands | A group of coral islands in eastern Micronesia |
| Melanesia | The islands in the southwestern part of Oceania |
| Micronesia | The islands in the northwestern part of Oceania |
| Oceania, Oceanica | A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago) |
| Orkney Islands | An archipelago of about 70 islands in the North Atlantic and North Sea off the northeastern coast of Scotland |
| Outer Hebrides | A 130-mile long archipelago to the northwest of Scotland |
| Palau, Palau Islands, Belau, Pelew | A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean |
| Philippines, Philippine Islands | An archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands |
| Polynesia | The islands in the eastern part of Oceania |
| Ryukyu Islands | A chain of 55 islands in the western Pacific to the to the southwest of Japan (returned by United States to Japan in 1972) |
| Scilly Islands, Isles of Scilly | An archipelago of small islands off the southwestern coast of England near the entrance to the English Channel |
| Shetland, Shetland Islands, Zetland | An archipelago of about 100 islands in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland |
| Society Islands | An island group of French Polynesia in the South Pacific to the east of Samoa |
| Solomons, Solomon Islands | The northernmost islands are part of Papua New Guinea |
| Sunda Islands | A chain of islands in the western Malay Archipelago |
| Svalbard | A Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean |
| Tierra del Fuego | An archipelago off southern South America |
| Tuamotu Archipelago, Paumotu Archipelago, Low Archipelago | A group of about 80 coral islands in French Polynesia |
| Tubuai Islands, Austral Islands | A chain of small islands in French Polynesia |
| Tuvalu, Ellice Islands | A group of coral islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii |
| Volcano Islands | A group of Japanese Islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean to the north of the Marianas |
| West Indies, the Indies | The string of islands between North America and South America |
| Windward Islands, Windward Isles | A group of islands in the southeastern West Indies |
| Members | island | A land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water |
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| Broader | land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma | The solid part of the earth's surface |
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| Spanish | archipiélago |
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| Catalan | arxipèlag |
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| Adjectives | archipelagic | relating to or part of an archipelago |
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