Definition of Archipelago. Meaning of Archipelago. Synonyms of Archipelago

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Definition of Archipelago

Archipelago
Archipelago Ar`chi*pel"a*go, n.; pl. -goes or -gos. [It. arcipelago, properly, chief sea; Gr. pref ? + ? sea, perh. akin to ? blow, and expressing the beating of the waves. See Plague.] 1. The Grecian Archipelago, or [AE]gean Sea, separating Greece from Asia Minor. It is studded with a vast number of small islands. 2. Hence: Any sea or broad sheet of water interspersed with many islands or with a group of islands.

Meaning of Archipelago from wikipedia

- An archipelago (/ˌɑːrkəˈpɛləɡoʊ/ AR-kə-PEL-ə-goh), sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands, or...
- The Chagos Archipelago (/ˈtʃɑːɡəs, -ɡoʊs/) or Chagos Islands (formerly the B****as de Chagas, and later the Oil Islands) is a group of seven atolls comprising...
- The Archipelago is a township in central Ontario, Canada, along the Georgian Bay in the Parry Sound District. The muni****lity consists of two non-contiguous...
- The Arctic Archipelago, also known as the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, is an archipelago lying to the north of the Canadian continental mainland, excluding...
- The Lucayan Archipelago, also known as the Bahamian Archipelago, is an island group comprising the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and the British Overseas...
- The ****anese archipelago (****anese: 日本列島, Nihon Rettō) is an archipelago of 14,125 islands that form the country of ****an. It extends over 3,000 km (1...
- Malay Archipelago is the archipelago between Mainland Southeast Asia and Australia, and is also called Insulindia or the Indo-Australian Archipelago. The...
- The archipelago of Gothenburg (Swedish: Göteborgs skärgård) comprises northern and southern archipelagoes. The southern archipelago is part of Gothenburg...
- Look up archipelago in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An archipelago is a landform which consists of a chain or cluster of islands. Archipelago(s) may...
- [ˈsvɑ̂ːɫbɑr]), previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. North of mainland Europe, it lies about midway between...