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Example sentences for: archipelago

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The string of islands that make up Japan is in fact a highly volatile archipelago dotted with volcanoes and regularly subjected to earthquakes and typhoons.
Take a boat excursion out to the pretty island of Giglio; it is one of the islands of the Tuscan archipelago that includes Elba, best known as the island of Napoleon’s retreat.
Zarco happened upon a small volcanic archipelago 1,000 km from Lisbon.
As the people of East Timor voted Monday on their future, the International Herald Tribune ran a comment from Hong Kong blaming the West for exacerbating the tragedy by its "romantic passion for encouraging the pettiest of nationalisms, not least that of the 800,000 inhabitants of half a small island in an archipelago populated by 200 million."
These migrants, who later settled throughout the Japanese archipelago, were the ancestors of the present-day Ainu, whose Caucasoid facial and body hair distinguished them from subsequent immigrants from China, Manchuria, Korea, and perhaps the Malay Peninsula.