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Sentence Examples Somewhere back in the mists of time, a volcano erupted and the archipelago of Madeira was formed. This is a fascinating archipelago at the southern end of the Red Sea. History suggests that unifying the archipelago administratively can only be done by the use of force. Within the country, a distinction is made between the capital of Nassau on New Providence Island and the out islands of the archipelago. Palawan, the most westerly island of the archipelago is a local name meaning Gate of Combat. On islands farther out in the archipelago, across water channels that may run several miles wide, deer make up about 50 percent of the diet. But many of the 700 islands and 2,000 cays that make up the archipelago are either uninhabited or have much smaller-scale tourism. Pokki finds a similar effect in a field vole metapopulation inhabiting an archipelago. There, they roam the coastline throughout the archipelago, from the Big Island in the south to Midway and Kure 1200 miles to the north-west. Self-exiled to the Marquesas archipelago, he expired miserably in 1903 from the effects of social diseases and more-than-social drinking. Alternative staples such as foxtail millet, Job's tears, taro, yams and sago played a more important role in other parts of the archipelago. Sailing enthusiasts are drawn to the Abaco Islands, with its archipelago of tiny cays. The archipelago consists of approximately seven hundred islands and cays, plus nearly 2,400 reefs and rock formations. The current saga over refugee influxes would pale in comparison to the thousands of Indonesians fleeing a balkanising archipelago. We had no idea whether the vessel was actually departing the archipelago or going somewhere else in the archipelago. In fact, from pure geography, it is difficult to tell where the archipelago starts. Vast tracts of class and cash separate these two very different islands in the Glaswegian archipelago. The islands in the archipelago are mostly unspoiled and boast around 115 different bird species, including the rare crab plover. There are also some very pricey hideaways in the neighboring islands of the archipelago favoured by the jet set. Krater is a house on Antiparos, one of the smaller islands of the Cycladic archipelago. Show More Sentences The islands of the Scilly archipelago are steeped in both maritime and diving history. It took both reflexes acting in concert to deliver the people of the Chagos archipelago into exile. The archipelago has a fourteen-foot tidal difference during spring and neap so the surroundings are ever changing, revealing its secrets. In 1974 Johannes came from the United States to the Micronesian island archipelago of Palau. The Indonesian archipelago sits on the Pacific Rim of Fire, noted for its volcanic and seismic activity. There are 13 main islands in the archipelago, plus four islets and some 40 outcrops of jagged rocks. They live by their fishings, and are reputed to be the best boatsmen and cragsmen in the archipelago. The mission involved a patrol to the northern-most extremity of the Solomon archipelago, to a picturesque atoll called Ontong Java. In October the largest task force of the Pacific war sailed for the island of Leyte to begin the reconquest of the archipelago. The Indonesian archipelago stretches over a vast area, straddling the equator. Several darker patches on the horizon suggested the many islands that made up the archipelago. The islands were first settled in part by Portuguese prisoners sent to populate the remote archipelago as a condition of their release. As on many of the thousand islands in the archipelago, there are no roads and no electricity. Wire communications facilities across the Philippine Islands linked the archipelago by submarine cable. The geography of the Philippine archipelago forced the Army and Navy to collaborate on amphibious operations. These people were mostly Mahorans, African slaves and bondsmen, Malagasy, and Comoreans from other islands in the archipelago. Mafia is the largest island in this archipelago, which is made up of many smaller islands atolls and tidal sandbars. The Philippines is an archipelago of 7,100 islands, islets, and atolls located southeast of the Asian mainland. But the Haida assert Aboriginal rights and title over the entire archipelago and its surrounding waters. But by a small miracle, a few pairs of breeding cahows hung for generations on some remote sea cliffs in the Bermuda archipelago. Show More Sentences Waterborne commerce, vital to any archipelago, was conducted in crude sailing craft. During the 32-year long kleptocratic rule of the authoritarian president Soeharto the huge Indonesian archipelago was ruled from Jakarta. She also said her top priority was to prevent the diverse archipelago being torn apart by separatist rebellions. What happens on the remoter flyspecks in the American archipelago remains largely a closed book. Ethnic Palauans predominate, inhabiting the main islands of the archipelago. In a little local sidelight, it was the Yuan dynasty that first started to breed horses in the Penghu archipelago for use in southern China. The island's startling natural beauty can be a rueful reminder of what once was, up and down the Caribbean archipelago. What is lacking, however, is a map of all the counties and shires across the archipelago, given the number of references to them in Smith's narrative. There were three Dutch voyages to the Arctic archipelago in the 16th century. They looked like maps of an archipelago, their natural pink-white hue splotched with huge, coppery splats. It sets the rhythm of life in this archipelago and is a pulsating hub that blends the Oriental with the Occidental, the mundane with extraordinary. Seychelles is an outstandingly beautiful and isolated archipelago in the Indian Ocean. Selective memory sought to erase the traces of the outmoded European-style colonialism that the Americans abortively tried to practice in the archipelago. The domino theory may not have worked well for John Foster Dulles, but it is an apt metaphor for how conservative critics are inching down the media archipelago. At some stage, the inner archipelago gives way to the outer archipelago. Power has withered at the center and devolved to an archipelago of fiefdoms where warlords rule without the burdens of governing. No, we live on a chain of islands, an archipelago, not a continent. We studied allozyme variation in metapopulations of two species of water fleas in the skerry archipelago of southern Finland. This windswept sheep-filled archipelago off the coast of Southern Patagonia remains an argentine obsession. The study team suspect the bird evolved into a separate island race having been blown astray and marooned on Wangi Wangi, part of the Tukangbesi archipelago. Show More Sentences Fishing has been practised near the Lofoten archipelago for hundreds of years. Mainland effectively provides the core of the Orkney Islands, linking the northern members of the archipelago with the southern ones. North Ronaldsay is the northernmost island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland. From this came the Spanish name for the Islas Malvinas, the archipelago known in English as the Falkland Islands. The archipelago comprises 365 islands at low tide, compared to only 52 islands at high tide. According to the Records of the Three Kingdoms, the most powerful kingdom on the archipelago during the 3rd century was called Yamataikoku. If the Hungarian specimen is from a paralligatorid, then it would be the first occurrence of the group in the European archipelago. Africa's largest country is Algeria, and its smallest country is Seychelles, an archipelago off the east coast. The archipelago of Indonesia and the island nation of East Timor border the ocean on the east. Gough and Inaccessible Islands is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the archipelago of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic Ocean. The islands of this archipelago are the visible parts of a range of submerged mountains. In 1957 the prison was closed and the archipelago was visited by President Juscelino Kubitschek. In 1942, during World War II, the archipelago was made a Federal territory, which included Rocas Atoll and Saint Peter and Paul Rocks. The only banking center in the archipelago is a branch of Banco Santander Brasil. Access to the archipelago is prohibited to casual tourists, the media, and its former inhabitants. Due to the Isles of Scilly's remote location, the shipping service is often called 'a life line' for the archipelago. The word archipelago was originally applied specifically to the Aegean Sea and its islands. While he was exploring the archipelago, he refined his thoughts about evolution and had his famous insight on natural selection. Velho apparently got a far as the Formigas, in the eastern archipelago, before having to return to Sagres, probably due to bad weather. Members of his expedition became the first Europeans to reach the Philippine archipelago. Show More Sentences The Spanish settled and took control of Tidore in 1603 to trade spices and counter Dutch encroachment in the archipelago of Maluku. The more than 25,000 islands of the archipelago comprise many smaller archipelagoes. Geologically the archipelago is one of the most active volcanic regions in the world. The climate throughout the archipelago is tropical, owing to its position on the equator. The network also extend eastward to East China Sea and Yellow Sea to connect China with Korean Peninsula and Japanese archipelago. Zanzibar influences in the Comoros archipelago in the Indian Ocean indirectly introduced Omani customs to the Comorian culture. In the case of an archipelago, windward islands are upwind and leeward islands are the downwind ones. In the 16th century, the archipelago prospered from the Atlantic slave trade. In addition, there are 28 health centers, 35 sanitation centers and a variety of private clinics located throughout the archipelago. Josh Angulo, a Hawaiian and 2009 PWA Wave World Champion, has done much to promote the archipelago as a windsurfing destination. Cuba is an archipelago of islands located in the northern Caribbean Sea at the confluence with the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. During the same journey, he constructed a ship and visited the islands of Aruba and the Las Aves archipelago. Chagossians have since engaged in activism to return to the archipelago, claiming that their forced expulsion and dispossession were illegal. Almost all inhabitants of Socotra, numbering nearly 50,000, live on the homonymous main island of the archipelago. Monsoons long made the archipelago inaccessible from June to September each year. The northern archipelago, which includes Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores and Wetar, is volcanic in origin. The Uyunids controlled Bahrain until 1235, when the archipelago was briefly occupied by the Persian ruler of Fars. More than 330 species of birds were recorded in the Bahrain archipelago, 26 species of which breed in the country. Some popular archipelago rhythms are the Schottische, the Calypso, the Polka and the Mento. However, the treaty did not stop the colonization of the Philippine archipelago from New Spain. Show More Sentences The archipelago was Spain's outpost in the orient and Manila became the capital of the entire Spanish East Indies. The European population in the archipelago steadily grew although natives remained the majority. Eventually the name Las Islas Filipinas would be used to cover all the islands of the archipelago. Spanish rule eventually contributed significantly to bringing political unity to the fragmented states of the archipelago. As an archipelago consisting of about 7,500 islands, the Philippines has numerous beaches, caves and other rock formations. This is due mainly to the fact that Philippines is an archipelago thus the different varieties of dance developed. During the second half of the 19th century, the archipelago began to come under Chilean and Argentine influence. Both countries sought to claim the whole archipelago based on de jure Spanish colonial titles. The geology of the archipelago is characterized by the effects of the Andean orogeny and the repeated Pleistocene glaciations. Like the mainland of Chile and Argentina to the north, this archipelago boasts some of the finest trout fishing in the world. Cape Horn is located on Isla Hornos in the Hermite Islands group, at the southern end of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago. Germany governed the archipelago as the Karolinen, administratively associated with German New Guinea. Biak is the largest island in its small archipelago, and has many atolls, reefs, and corals. The Admiralty Islands are an archipelago group of 18 islands in the Bismarck Archipelago, to the north of New Guinea in the South Pacific Ocean. The ancient history of the archipelago which is now Puerto Rico is not well known. Puerto Rican cuisine has transcended the boundaries of the island, and can be found in several countries outside the archipelago. Historically, it has had a culture distinct from the rest of Java and that of the broader Indonesian archipelago. Constituting the westernmost bulk of the archipelago, it borders the Arctic Ocean, the Norwegian Sea, and the Greenland Sea. Under Norwegian governance, the archipelago was named Svalbard in 1925, the main island becoming Spitsbergen. For example, the peopling of the Japanese archipelago offers an opportunity to investigate the early use of watercraft. Show More Sentences In 2013, the archipelago became its own governorate, the Socotra Governorate. They are located in the Virgin Islands archipelago, a few miles east of the US Virgin Islands. Scilly is situated far into the Atlantic Ocean, so many American vagrant birds will make first European landfall in the archipelago. Forts from the colonial era, used for defense purposes, still line a number of major coastal cities across the archipelago. Nonetheless, British Isles is still the most widely accepted term for the archipelago. Maldives, the small archipelago southwest of the peninsula, is considered part of the Indian subcontinent. The Tristan da Cunha archipelago in the South Atlantic also has an oceanic climate. The archipelago is therefore situated in the zone between the Eurasian and African tectonic plates. Aside from the University of the Philippines, there are other notable state colleges and universities within the archipelago. The palaces reflect the long history and diverse culture of the Indonesian archipelago. The country consists of a peninsula, Jutland, and an archipelago of 443 named islands, with the largest being Zealand and Funen. For example, Scotland has more than 700 islands surrounding its mainland which form an archipelago. Other examples include Mingulay, Noss and the St Kilda archipelago, which were abandoned during the course of the 20th century. The etymology of St Kilda, a small archipelago west of the Outer Hebrides, and its main island Hirta is very complex. Hoy is the second largest of the Orkney Isles and Ward Hill at its northern end is the highest elevation in the archipelago. Ferries serve both to link Orkney to the rest of Scotland, and also to link together the various islands of the Orkney archipelago. The archipelago has an oceanic climate, a complex geology, a rugged coastline and many low, rolling hills. The archipelago is exposed to wind and tide, and there are numerous sites of wrecked ships. The archipelago is formed by high points on the rim of the caldera of a submarine volcano that forms a seamount. Bermuda is on the same parallel as the Portuguese archipelago Madeira a few time zones farther east in the Atlantic. Show More Sentences Many Virginian place names refer to the archipelago, such as Bermuda City, and Bermuda Hundred. To guard it, the British Army built up a large Bermuda Garrison, and heavily fortified the archipelago. Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, the company became the dominant European power in the archipelago. The UK excised the archipelago from Mauritian territory in 1965, three years prior to Mauritian independence. In 1942, a battalion en route to India was redeployed to the Falklands as a garrison amid fears of a Japanese seizure of the archipelago. Two main islands, West Falkland and East Falkland, and about 776 smaller islands constitute the archipelago. Birds unique to the archipelago are the South Georgia shag, South Georgia pipit, and the South Georgia pintail. Maldives, the country consisting of a small archipelago southwest of the peninsula, is considered part of the Indian subcontinent. The islands form an archipelago whose major islands are Lewis and Harris, North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist, and Barra. Much of the archipelago is a protected habitat, including both the islands and the surrounding waters. The archipelago of Tierra del Fuego is sometimes included as part of Patagonia. In addition, polar bears may be found on Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago far north of Scandinavia. But Portugal exercises sovereignty over the Savage Islands, a small archipelago north of the Canaries, claiming an EEZ border further south. Its high latitude and marine influence keep summers chilly, with most of the archipelago having a tundra climate. Because Indonesia encompasses a sprawling archipelago, maritime shipping provides essential links between parts of the country. A network of passenger ships makes longer connections to more remote islands, especially in the eastern part of the archipelago. Indonesian is based on the prestige dialect of Malay, which for centuries had been the lingua franca of the archipelago. The natural heritage can boast a unique combination of a tropical climate, vast archipelago and long stretch of beaches. Feral goats have caused serious damage to native vegetation on the Galapagos archipelago. Turtles were harvested in the remotest parts of the Indonesian archipelago. Show More Sentences A grouping of geographically or geologically related islands is called an archipelago, such as the Philippines, for example. The archipelago forms an autonomous community and a province of Spain, with Palma de Mallorca as the capital. The Canary Islands are the most southerly region of Spain and the largest and most populated archipelago of the Macaronesia region. Tenerife is the most populous island, and also the largest island of the archipelago. The Canary Islands is the largest and most populated archipelago of the Macaronesia region. The archipelago consists of seven large and several smaller islands, all of which are volcanic in origin. As a consequence, the individual islands in the Canary archipelago tend to have distinct microclimates. Franco quickly took control of the archipelago, except for a few points of resistance on La Palma and in the town of Vallehermoso, on La Gomera. Lanzarote is the easternmost island and one of the most ancient of the archipelago, and it has shown evidence of recent volcanic activity. In addition, with 906,854 inhabitants it is the most populated island of the archipelago and Spain. It includes the islands of Madeira, Porto Santo, and the Desertas, administered together with the separate archipelago of the Savage Islands. There was not much interest among the Portuguese people in an isolated archipelago so far from civilization. The archipelago features an Arctic climate, although with significantly higher temperatures than other areas at the same latitude. The archipelago might in that period have been used for fishing and hunting. The archipelago has traditionally been known as Spitsbergen, and the main island as West Spitsbergen. From the 1920s, Norway renamed the archipelago Svalbard, and the main island became Spitsbergen. Longyearbyen is the largest settlement on the archipelago, the seat of the governor and the only town to be incorporated. The Svalbard Treaty of 1920 established full Norwegian sovereignty over the archipelago. Bear Island has average temperatures even higher than the rest of the archipelago. The Spitsbergen Treaty of 9 February 1920, recognises the full and absolute sovereignty of Norway over all the arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Show More Sentences Isfjorden is the second longest fjord in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. It is also probable that his expedition sighted Tahiti and other islands in the Tuamotu archipelago. It belongs to the archipelago of the New Hebrides in the Pacific region of Melanesia. Venice is built on an archipelago of 118 islands formed by 177 canals in a shallow lagoon, connected by 409 bridges. Russia and Norway share the coal resources of the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, under the Svalbard Treaty. The island of Great Britain, along with the rest of the archipelago known as the British Isles, has a largely temperate climate. The saltwater fish include some quite dangerous species such as sharks, though shark attacks are extremely rare in the archipelago. In Europe cloves from the Indonesian archipelago were prized as a medicine, especially for toothache, as well as a spicer of food and drink. Japan is an island nation in East Asia comprising a large stratovolcanic archipelago extending along the Pacific coast of Asia. There emerged an archipelago of Kanak reservation lands lodged between ranches and mining concessions. Just 42km long and 8km wide, Kos is the third largest island of the Dodecanese archipelago, after Rhodes and Karpathos. Komodos, the world's largest lizard, are only found in the wild in a small archipelago in eastern Indonesia. About 140 people live on Kuchinoerabu island in the Ryukyu archipelago, 50 miles southwest of the main southern island of Kyushu. The group was on a Christmas fishing expedition in the archipelago. The timing of megafaunal extinction in the late Late Pleistocene on the Japanese archipelago. The project area includes the EU s largest freshwater archipelago with 22 000 islands, islets and skerries. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are an archipelago of over 500 islands, only 34 of which are permanently inhabited. I was supposed to be helping with the annual sheep punding on this tiny, fascinating and most northernly island of the Orkney archipelago. Originating from Campania in Italy, Scotti works in Vulcano, one of seven islands in the Aeolian archipelago. The archipelago is on the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization's list of territories waiting to be decolonized. Show More Sentences Unique species of marine iguanas, giant tortoises and mockingbirds reside on the archipelago that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. From a phytogeographic perspective the archipelago is considered as part of the Caribbean-Mesoamerican Region. East Timor is a Connecticut-sized, half-island nation near the eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago. These authors discussed endemism within the archipelago and increased our understanding of species distributions across these islands. Like the rest of the archipelago, Irian Jaya was originally part of the Dutch East Indies. Hawaii is an archipelago with eight main islands, Hawaii, Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Molokai, Lanai, Niihau and Kahoolawe. Spatial structure and genetic diversity of natural populations of the Caribbean pine, Pinus caribaea var bahamensis, in the Bahaman archipelago. The flight path remained close to the Indonesian archipelago, well within what is the normal reach of air traffic control radar. The Kingdom of Bahrain is an archipelago in the Persian Gulf, east of Saudi Arabia and is governed by the Al-Khalif family in consultation with a council of ministers. It had grown into a major trading hub, sharing a monopoly with the Rajahnate of Maynila over the trade of Ming dynasty products throughout the archipelago. Bahrain is a generally flat and arid archipelago in the Persian Gulf. The Isles of Scilly are an archipelago of small islands in the sea. For the next two centuries, Persian rulers retained control of the archipelago, interrupted by the 1717 and 1738 invasions of the Ibadhis of Oman. According to the 2012 census, the average daily population of the Falklands was 2,932, excluding military personnel serving in the archipelago and their dependents. The Mariana Crow is listed as an endangered species and originally occurred only in the Mariana archipelago on two adjacent islands, Rota and Guam. In 1330, the archipelago became a tributary state of the rulers of Hormuz, though locally the islands were controlled by the Shi'ite Jarwanid dynasty of Qatif. The Dutch East India Company was abolished in the early 18th century, and all its possessions in the Malay archipelago came under the direct control of the Dutch crown. The northern archipelago began to be formed during the Pliocene, about 15 million years ago, as a result of the collision between the Australian and the Asian plates. The long geological isolation of the Socotra archipelago and its fierce heat and drought have combined to create a unique and spectacular endemic flora. The state of Pernambuco also includes the archipelago Fernando de Noronha. Show More Sentences The largest island, both in size and population, is Santiago, which hosts the nation's capital, Praia, the principal urban agglomeration in the archipelago. The terms are used by seamen in relation to their ships but also in reference to islands in an archipelago and to the different sides of a single island. As vassals of the Portuguese state, the Kingdom of Ormus jointly participated in the 1521 invasion of Bahrain that ended Jabrid rule of the Persian Gulf archipelago. Situated between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, the group of over 25,000 islands is the largest archipelago by area, and fourth by number of islands in the world. China also had vassals among the leaders in the archipelago. Nevertheless, by 1542, King Charles V decided to colonize the Philippines, judging that Portugal would not protest because the archipelago had no spices. Japan is a stratovolcanic archipelago consisting of about 6,852 islands. Variability of daily weather is typical throughout the archipelago. The Eurasian Basin is bounded from the South by Greenland and the Svalbard archipelago, the Lomonosov Ridge, and the Siberian shelves of Laptev Sea, Kara Sea and Barents Sea. The archipelago is also an important site for breeding seabirds. A few months later Smith returned to explore the other islands of the South Shetlands archipelago, landed on King George Island, and claimed the new territories for Britain. The gaps in the archipelago of Central America filled in with material eroded off North America and South America, plus new land created by continued volcanism. Distribution of green algal mats throughout shallow soft bottoms of the Swedish Skagerrak archipelago in relation to nutrient sources and wave exposure. Most Falklanders favour the archipelago remaining a UK overseas territory, but its sovereignty status is part of an ongoing dispute between Argentina and the United Kingdom. In 1772, the Louis XV granted the archipelago to the Abbot Nolin. It's about the size of Ireland and an archipelago consisting of 334 islands with a major tract of pristine, temperate rainforest with Unesco world heritage status. The Federated States of Micronesia consists of 607 islands extending 1,800 miles across the archipelago of the Caroline Islands east of the Philippines. Only six miles long and two miles wide, Peleliu is part of the Palau group of the Caroline Islands, a vast archipelago stretching for 2,000 miles across the Pacific. The Caribbean boasts a host of dive sites, some of the best of which can be found off the coasts of Tobago, one of the smaller islands at the foot of the archipelago. Chinese fishing boats regularly travel to the Spratlys, a potentially oil-rich archipelago which China claims as part of its territory on historical grounds. Show More Sentences Almost all of the ports in the Azores archipelago suffered most of their destruction from the tsunami, with the sea penetrating about 150 m inland. The ship's clinker-built structure also strengthened the hypothesis that the vessel found in the Luro archipelago, in the middle of Lake Vanern, dates from the Viking era. The revival of other northern airfields is set to continue, as is the reactivation of docks on the New Siberian Islands and the Franz Josef archipelago. The archipelago also has a distinct culture, with traditions of the Scottish Highlands such as Tartan, clans, bagpipes not indigenous to the culture of the islands. There are only a handful of such enclosures in the archipelago. James Warren describes the Sulu slave trade, where captives were seized along the coast of many Southeast Asian countries and taken to the Sulu archipelago. Although most of Shetland's Hanseatic trade was conducted from Scalloway, Burravoe was one of the most important of the other Hanseatic centres in the archipelago. While there is little precipitation, giving the archipelago a steppe climate, plants still have good access to water because the cold climate reduces evaporation. During 2007 Scottish and Southern Energy plc in conjunction with the University of Strathclyde began the implementation of a Regional Power Zone in the Orkney archipelago. Today the Northern Fleet ship formation finished its task performance at the Novaya Zemlya archipelago and headed to the Kola Bay to the permanent base. In September 2010 a treaty was made between Russia and Norway fixing the boundary between the Svalbard archipelago and the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. The Dutchman Willem Barentsz made the first indisputable discovery of the archipelago in 1596, when he sighted its coast while searching for the Northern Sea Route. Administratively, the archipelago is not part of any Norwegian county, but forms an unincorporated area administered by a governor appointed by the Norwegian government. That doesn't leave much room for Uruguayans to claim the archipelago. The islands of the archipelago do not have independent status in law, except in electoral law and are governed by 19 municipalities that subdivide the islands. The archipelago lies in the Palearctic ecozone, forming a unique biome that includes the macaronesian subtropical laurissilva, with many endemic species of plants and animals. South of Ardnamurchan, Gaelic place names are more common, and after the 13th century, Gaelic became the main language of the entire Hebridean archipelago. Precipitation varies considerably throughout the archipelago. Both Hinduism and Buddhism were well established in the Malay Peninsula by the beginning of the 1st century CE, and from there spread across the archipelago. The archipelago may have been known to Russian Pomor hunters as early as the 14th or 15th century, although solid evidence preceding the 17th century is lacking. Show More Sentences Those islands such as El Hierro, La Palma and La Gomera lying to the west of the archipelago have a climate which is influenced by the moist Gulf Stream. Citizens of any of the signatory countries may settle in the archipelago. Subduction of the Philippine Sea Plate occurs at the eastern margin of the archipelago along the Philippine Trench and its northern extension, the East Luzon Trough. It lies on the west side of Spitsbergen, an island in the Arctic Ocean about midway between Norway and the North Pole, and the largest in the archipelago. The peak time of year for this is generally in October when it is not unusual for several of the rarest birds in Europe to share this archipelago. As elsewhere, in what was then the United Kingdom of the whole archipelago, this encouraged and fed off a rise in nationalism, which was especially intense in Ireland. Living in an agrarian and maritime culture the people in Indonesian archipelago have been famous in some traditional technologies, particularly in agriculture and marine. The Standard Estonian language itself varies in its accents in the West Estonian archipelago, with distinctive main island accents, and in Southern Estonia. As an island archipelago New Zealand accumulated bird diversity and when Captain James Cook arrived in the 1770s he noted that the bird song was deafening. The island of Ireland is situated to the west of it, and together these islands, along with over 1,000 smaller surrounding islands, comprise the British Isles archipelago. Outlying islands of the archipelago are also home to populations of Elephant Seal and Southern Sea Lion while offshore there are even Killer Whales. It appears to have reached the Japanese archipelago around the aneolithic Yayoi period, almost contemporaneous with the TB expansion in the continental Asia. The Dutch East India Company regulated the missionary work so it could serve its own interests and restricted it to the eastern part of the Indonesian archipelago. They arrived in Indonesia around 2000 BCE, and as they spread through the archipelago, confined the indigenous Melanesian peoples to the far eastern regions. Croatia's Adriatic Sea is graced with an archipelago of more than a thousand beautiful islands swathed in fragrant pine groves, flowers and herbs. It is separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. However, while there was no loss of life, the ship was wrecked beyond repair, stranding its survivors on the uninhabited archipelago, to which they laid claim for England. An archipelago among the Greater Antilles, Puerto Rico includes the main island of Puerto Rico and a number of smaller ones, such as Mona, Culebra, and Vieques. Islands in the archipelago were first explored by Europeans in the 1520s, starting with Ferdinand Magellan of Portugal and Miguel de Saavedra of Spain. Nevertheless, by 1542, King Charles V had decided to colonise the Philippines, assuming that Portugal would not protest too vigorously because the archipelago had no spices. Show More Sentences The Indonesian archipelago has been an important region for trade since at least the 7th century, when Srivijaya and then later Majapahit traded with China and India. Among the most notable animals in the archipelago are austral parakeets, sea gulls, guanacos, foxes, kingfishers, condors, king penguins, owls, and firecrown hummingbirds. They are part of the Tierra del Fuego, Antarctic Territory and South Atlantic Islands Province, whose capital is Ushuaia, the biggest city of the archipelago. Trindade and Martin Vaz is a volcanic archipelago off the coast of Brazil. The Allied Forces then employed a strategy of island hopping towards the Philippine archipelago, in the process, retaking territory conquered by Imperial Japan. Those challengers were fought off despite the hostile forces having encircled the Philippine archipelago in a crescent formed from Japan to Indonesia. The EEZ of the Chagos archipelago also known as the British Indian Ocean Territory is also disputed with Mauritius which considers the EEZ as part of its territory. Therefore, colonization was made easy and the small states of the archipelago quickly became incorporated into the Spanish Empire and were Hispanicized and Christianized. Examples from Classical Literature How far the Franz Josef Land archipelago stretches towards the north cannot as yet be determined with certainty. Towards its mouth its waters find their way into all the channels intersecting the South Holland archipelago. In that story I had not gone back to the archipelago, I had only turned for another look at it. Morrison knew no more of Heyst than the rest of us trading in the archipelago did. Two principal groups are distinguished, the kuri archipelago in the south, and the Buduma in the north. Through this archipelago the waters of the Zambezi slowly run, giving no intimation of what is taking place several miles below. It was a day without a breath of wind, such as alternate in the archipelago with days of contumelious breezes. They should have left the island to leeward, heading into the Caribbean and away from the archipelago. In the same way the Nicobarese, according to Man, can distinguish a member of each of the six tribes of the archipelago by smell. The vroucolacas of Greece and the archipelago are again revenans of a new kind. Pearls are found off the southern coast of Madras and also in the Mergui archipelago. The artworks, made by young people at the Baltic art centre in Gateshead, will create an archipelago shape for the Floating Islands project. Find more words! 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