archipelago

1. A group of many islands in a large body of water (synset 109226715)
   is a type of: dry land, earth, ground, land, solid ground, terra firma - the solid part of the earth's surface
   specific instances:

   • cape verde islands - a group of islands in the Atlantic off of the coast of Senegal
   • tierra del fuego - an archipelago off southern South America; separated from the continent by the Strait of Magellan; islands are administered by Chile and by Argentina
   • comoro islands, iles comores - three main islands and numerous islets in the Indian Ocean between Mozambique and Madagascar
   • the indies, west indies - the string of islands between North America and South America; a popular resort area
   • antilles - a group of islands in the West Indies
   • greater antilles - a group of islands in the western West Indies
   • caribees, lesser antilles - a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies
   • leeward islands - a group of islands in the eastern West Indies
   • windward islands, windward isles - a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies; the southern part of the Lesser Antilles
   • svalbard - a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean
   • lofoten - a string of islands off the northwestern coast of Norway in the Norwegian Sea
   • aaland islands, ahvenanmaa, aland islands - an archipelago of some 6,000 islands in the Gulf of Bothnia under Finnish control
   • arctic archipelago - all the islands that lie to the north of mainland Canada and the Arctic Circle
   • aleutian islands, aleutians - an archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwest from Alaska
   • oceania, oceanica - a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago)
   • australasia - Australia, New Zealand, and neighboring islands in the South Pacific
   • austronesia - islands of central and South Pacific (Indonesia and Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia)
   • melanesia - the islands in the southwestern part of Oceania
   • micronesia - the islands in the northwestern part of Oceania
   • ladrone islands, mariana islands, marianas - a chain of coral and volcanic islands in Micronesia (including Guam and the Northern Marianas) halfway between New Guinea and Japan; discovered by Magellan in 1521
   • caroline islands - a long archipelago of more than 500 islands in Micronesia to the east of the Philippines
   • marshall islands - a group of coral islands in eastern Micronesia
   • gilbert islands - a group of islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it became part of the Republic of Kiribati in 1979
   • ellice islands, tuvalu - a group of coral islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii
   • polynesia - the islands in the eastern part of Oceania
   • east india, east indies, malay archipelago - a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia
   • sunda islands - a chain of islands in the western Malay Archipelago
   • greater sunda islands - a chain of islands including Borneo and Celebes and Java and Sumatra
   • lesser sunda islands, nusa tenggara - a chain of islands forming a province of Indonesia to the east of Java; includes Bali and Timor
   • bismarck archipelago - a group of islands in the southwestern Pacific to the northeast of New Guinea; part of Papua New Guinea
   • admiralty islands - a group of islands in the Bismarck Archipelago
   • isles of scilly, scilly islands - an archipelago of small islands off the southwestern coast of England near the entrance to the English Channel; formerly a haven for smugglers and pirates
   • hebridean islands, hebridean isles, hebrides, western islands, western isles - a group of more than 500 islands off the western coast of Scotland
   • inner hebrides - islands between the Outer Hebrides and the western coast of Scotland
   • outer hebrides - a 130-mile long archipelago to the northwest of Scotland
   • japan, japanese archipelago, japanese islands - a string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean
   • ryukyu islands - a chain of 55 islands in the western Pacific to the to the southwest of Japan (returned by United States to Japan in 1972)
   • volcano islands - a group of Japanese Islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean to the north of the Marianas
   • frisian islands - a chain of islands in the North Sea off the coast of northwestern Europe extending from the IJsselmeer to Jutland
   • orkney islands - an archipelago of about 70 islands in the North Atlantic and North Sea off the northeastern coast of Scotland
   • shetland, shetland islands, zetland - an archipelago of about 100 islands in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland
   • belau, palau, palau islands, pelew - a chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean
   • philippine islands, philippines - an archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands
   • madeira islands, madeiras - a group of volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean to the west of Morocco; the group forms an autonomous region of Portugal
   • society islands - an island group of French Polynesia in the South Pacific to the east of Samoa
   • low archipelago, paumotu archipelago, tuamotu archipelago - a group of about 80 coral islands in French Polynesia
   • austral islands, tubuai islands - a chain of small islands in French Polynesia
   • gambier islands - a group of islands in the south central Pacific; part of French Polynesia
   • iles marquises, marquesas islands - a group of volcanic islands in the south central Pacific; part of French Polynesia
   • solomon islands, solomons - the northernmost islands are part of Papua New Guinea; the remainder form an independent state within the British Commonwealth
   • balearic islands - an archipelago in the western Mediterranean off the eastern coast of Spain
   • alexander archipelago - a group of islands off southeastern Alaska
   • h.i., hawaiian islands, sandwich islands - a group of volcanic and coral islands in the central Pacific
   member holonym: island - a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water

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