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 Lucayan Archipelago (named for the original native Lucayan people), also known as the Bahamian Archipelago, is an island group comprising the Commonwealth...
- 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 Malay Archipelago (Indonesian/Malay: Ke****uan Melayu, Tagalog: Kapuluang Malayo) also called Insulindia or the Indo-Australian Archipelago is the archipelago...
- 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...
- The Archipelago Sea (Finnish: Saaristomeri, Swedish: Skärgårdshavet) is a part of the Baltic Sea between the Gulf of Bothnia, the Gulf of Finland and...
- [ˈsvɑ̂ːɫbɑr] ), previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. North of mainland Europe, it lies about midway between...
- 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...
- The Duchy of the Archipelago (Gr****: Δουκάτο του Αρχιπελάγους, Italian: Ducato dell'arcipelago), also known as Duchy of Naxos or Duchy of the Aegean,...
- Turku archipelago may refer to: Archipelago Sea, part of the Baltic Sea outside the Finnish city of Turku Islands of Turku, islands inside the city limits...