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Example sentences for: archipelago

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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."
It is in fact a mountainous island in the South Pacific, part of the very populous and highly authoritarian archipelago nation of Indonesia.
The only other inhabited island in the archipelago, Porto Santo has a 9-km-long beach running the length of its south coast, but few other attractions.
The folk music of the Canaries stands as a reminder that the archipelago has always been a bridge between Spain and the New World.
It is in fact the principal island of an archipelago of 14, most of them little more than piles of rocks.