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An archipelago (/ ˌ ɑːr k ə ˈ p ɛ l ə ɡ oʊ / ⓘ AR-kə-PEL-ə-goh), [1] sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands, or a sea containing a small number of scattered islands. An archipelago may be on a lake, river, or an ocean.
Bothnian Bay archipelago [1] Haparanda archipelago [2] Kalix archipelago [3] Luleå archipelago [4] Piteå archipelago [5] Skellefteå archipelago [6] Froan; Kvarken Archipelago; Norrbotten Archipelago; Oskarshamn archipelago; Pakri Islands; South Funen Archipelago; Swedish East Coast Archipelago Gräsö archipelago; Oskarshamn archipelago ...
The baselines must enclose the main islands of the archipelago and the enclosed water to land ratio must be "between 1:1 and 9:1". [7] The lower end of this ratio was chosen to exclude states with a lot of land, like Japan , while the higher end prevents a group of highly scattered islands from putting claims on a very large body of water.
Name of the archipelago Number of islands, islets, reefs, coral reefs and cays Location (total number of islands) Archipelago Sea (Åland Archipelago): 50,000 (Approx.)
Archipelago articles are placed in the archipelago category of their ocean and in the island category of their country. Subcategories This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.
After Greenland, the archipelago is the world's largest high-Arctic land area. The climate of the islands is Arctic , and the terrain consists of tundra except in mountainous regions. Most of the islands are uninhabited; human settlement is extremely thin and scattered, being mainly coastal Inuit settlements on the southern islands.
The Chagos Archipelago. (Atolls with areas of dry land are named in green)The archipelago is about 500 kilometres (310 mi) south of the Maldives, 1,880 kilometres (1,170 mi) east of the Seychelles, 1,680 kilometres (1,040 mi) north-east of Rodrigues Island (), 2,700 kilometres (1,700 mi) west of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and 3,400 kilometres (2,100 mi) north of Amsterdam Island.
The Malay Archipelago is the archipelago between Mainland Southeast Asia and Australia, and is also called Insulindia or the Indo-Australian Archipelago. The name was taken from the 19th-century European concept of a Malay race , later based on the distribution of Austronesian languages .