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Archipelago An
archipelago is a
landform which consists of a chain or cluster of
island s. Archipelagoes usually occur in the open sea; less commonly, a large
land mass may neighbour them. Archipelagoes are often
volcanic , forming along
mid-ocean ridge s or
hotspots , but there are many other processes involved in their construction, including
erosion and
deposition .
The word
archipelago literally means "chief sea", from
Greek arkhon (leader) and
pelagos (
sea ) and principally refers to the
Aegean Sea (
Greek αρχιπέλαγος ,
Italian Arcipelago ).The Aegean Sea is located between
Greece in the west and
Turkey in the east. In the Aegean, the
Venetian Dukes of the Archipelago ruled from
Naxos ,
1210 "
1566 .
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ABC islands *
Aegean islands **
Cyclades **
Dodecanese *
Aleutian Islands *
Alexander Archipelago *
Andaman Islands *
Antilles (West Indies)
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Greater Antilles ***
Puerto Rican Islands **
Lesser Antilles ***
Leeward Islands ***
Windward Islands *
Azores *
Bahama Islands **
Turks and Caicos Islands *
Balearic Islands *
Baltic Sea archipelagoes
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Stockholm archipelago **
Turku archipelago **
Åland Islands *
Bermuda Islands *
Bight of Bonny islands
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British Isles **
Channel Islands **
Hebrides **
Isles of Scilly **
Orkney Islands **
Shetland Islands *
Canadian Arctic islands **
Belcher Islands **
Queen Elizabeth Islands *
Chagos Archipelago *
Channel Islands of California *
Chausey *
Chonos Archipelago *
Comoro Islands *
Diego Ramírez Islands *
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
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Faroe Islands *
Florida Keys *
Fox Islands *
Franz Josef Land *
Frisian Islands (or Wadden Islands)
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East Frisian Islands **
North Frisian Islands **
West Frisian Islands *
Furneaux Group *
Galápagos Islands (Colón)
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Gothenburg archipelago *
Guayaneco Archipelago *
Japanese Archipelago *
Juan Fernández Islands *
Kerguelen Islands *
Kermadec Islands *
Kornati *
Langkawi *
Lakshadweep (Laccadives)
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Lofoten *
Los Roques *
Macaronesia **
Canary Islands **
Cape Verde Islands ***
Barlavento ***
Sotavento **
Madeira Islands *
Magdalen Islands *
Malay archipelago (the world's largest)
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Maluku Islands **
Philippine Islands ***
Luzon Group ***
Mindanao Group ****
Sulu Archipelago ***
Visayas **
Sunda Islands ***
Greater Sunda Islands ***
Lesser Sunda Islands *
Maldives *
Maltese islands *
Mascarene Islands **
Seychelles Islands ***
Aldabra Group ***
Amirante Islands ***
Farquhar Group *
Melanesia **
Bismarck Archipelago **
Fiji Islands **
New Caledonia (Kanaky)
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Loyalty Islands **
Solomon Islands **
Vanuatu (New Hebrides)
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Mergui Archipelago *
Micronesia **
Caroline Islands **
Gilbert Islands (Kiribati)
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Line Islands **
Mariana Islands **
Marshall Islands ***
Ralik Chain ***
Ratak Chain **
Palau **
Phoenix Islands *
New Siberian Islands *
Nicobar Islands *
New England and
New York islands (
Manhattan ,
City Island ,
Long Island ,
Rikers Island ,
Roosevelt Island ,
Staten Island ,
Block Island ,
Nantucket ,
Martha's Vineyard ,
Liberty Island ,
Ellis Island ,
Governors Island ,
Long Beach Island ,
Elizabeth Islands )
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Novaya Zemlya islands
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Polynesia **
Cook Islands (Hervey Islands)
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French Polynesia ***
Austral Islands ***
Gambier Islands ***
Marquesas ***
Society Islands ****
Îles du vent (Windward Islands)
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Îles sous le vent (Leeward Islands)
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Tuamotus **
Hawaiian Islands (Sandwich Islands)
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New Zealand islands (Aotearoa)
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Pitcairn Islands **
Samoan Islands (Navigators' Islands)
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American Samoa (
Eastern Samoa )
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Samoa (
Western Samoa )
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Tonga Islands (Friendly Islands)
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Tokelau (Union Islands)
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Tuvalu (Ellice Islands)
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Wallis and Futuna Islands ***
Horne Islands *
Pontine Islands *
Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii)
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Saint Helena islands
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San Juan Islands *
Severnaya Zemlya *
Seychelles *
Solentiname Islands *
South China Sea Islands **
Paracel Islands **
Spratly Islands *
South Orkney Islands *
South Sandwich Islands *
South Shetland Islands *
Svalbard *
Tanzania 's
Indian Ocean *
Thousand Islands *
Tierra del Fuego *"
The World ", an archipelago of
artificial island s being constructed off
Dubai *
Tuscan Archipelago *
Venice islands
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Virgin Islands *
Island arc *
Geography *
Earth science *
Geomorphology *
List of landforms *
Plate tectonics Lists of islands:
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List of islands of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean *
List of islands in the Arctic Ocean *
List of islands of Asia *
List of islands in the Atlantic Ocean *
List of islands of Australia *
List of islands in the Baltic Sea *
List of islands of Canada *
List of islands in the Caribbean *
List of islands in the Indian Ocean *
List of islands of New Zealand *
List of islands of North America *
List of islands in the Pacific *
List of islands of South America *
List of islands in the United States
