archipelago Definition

an expanse of water with many scattered islands

a group of islands

something resembling an archipelago; especially : a group or scattering of similar things

archipelago of about 1100 islands in southeastern Alaska

archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, split between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, Canada

group of islands in the western Pacific north of the eastern end of New Guinea including New Britain, New Ireland, the Admiralty Islands, and about 200 other islands and islets area 19,173 square miles (49,658 square kilometers)

group of islands in the central part of the Indian Ocean south of the Maldives; comprises the British Indian Ocean Territory

island group in the Solomon Sea southeast of New Guinea; belongs to Papua New Guinea area about 600 square miles (1555 square kilometers), population 14,599

group of islands in southeastern Asia including Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Sulawesi, the Moluccas, and Timor —usually considered to include also the Philippines and sometimes New Guinea

reservation of more than a thousand small islands featuring erosion-formed monoliths and colonies of nesting birds in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Quebec, Canada

archipelago of Japan in the Sea of Japan off southwestern Honshu

islands west of the northern end of the Antarctic Peninsula in the British Antarctic Territory