Archipelago
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An archipelago is a landform which consists of a chain or cluster of islands. Archipelagoes usually occur in the open sea; less commonly, a large land mass may neighbour them. Archipelagoes are often volcanic, forming along mid-ocean ridges or hotspots, but there are many other processes involved in their construction, including erosion and deposition.
The word archipelago literally means "chief sea", from Greek arkhi (leader) and pelagos (sea) and principally refers to the Aegean Sea (Greek αρχιπέλαγος, Italian Arcipelago).The Aegean Sea is located between Greece in the west and Turkey in the east. In the Aegean, the Venetian Dukes of the Archipelago ruled from Naxos, 1210–1566.
The Archipelago Exchange is a fully electronic stock exchange that agreed to merge with the New York Stock Exchange in April 2005 to form the for-profit NYSE Group.
List of archipelagoes
- ABC islands
- Aegean islands
- *Cyclades
- *Dodecanese
- Aleutian Islands
- Alexander Archipelago
- Andaman Islands
- Antilles (West Indies)
- *Greater Antilles
- **Puerto Rican Islands
- *Lesser Antilles
- **Leeward Islands
- **Windward Islands
- Azores
- Bahama Islands
- *Turks and Caicos Islands
- Balearic Islands
- Baltic Sea archipelagoes
- *Stockholm archipelago
- *Turku archipelago
- *Åland Islands
- Bermuda Islands
- Bight of Bonny islands
- British Isles
- *Channel Islands
- *Hebrides
- *Isles of Scilly
- *Orkney Islands
- *Shetland Islands
- Canadian Arctic islands
- *Belcher Islands
- *Queen Elizabeth Islands
- Chagos Archipelago
- Channel Islands of California
- Chausey
- Chonos Archipelago
- Comoro Islands
- Diego Ramírez Islands
- Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
- Faroe Islands
- Florida Keys
- Fox Islands
- Franz Josef Land
- Frisian Islands (or Wadden Islands)
- *East Frisian Islands
- *North Frisian Islands
- *West Frisian Islands
- Furneaux Group
- Galápagos Islands (Colón)
- Gothenburg archipelago
- Guayaneco Archipelago
- Japanese Archipelago
- Juan Fernández Islands
- Kerguelen Islands
- Kermadec Islands
- Kornati
- Langkawi
- Lakshadweep (Laccadives)
- Lofoten
- Los Roques
- Macaronesia
- *Canary Islands
- *Cape Verde Islands
- **Barlavento
- **Sotavento
- *Madeira Islands
- Magdalen Islands
- Malay archipelago (the world's largest)
- *Maluku Islands
- *Philippine Islands
- **Luzon Group
- **Mindanao Group
- ***Sulu Archipelago
- **Visayas
- *Sunda Islands
- **Greater Sunda Islands
- **Lesser Sunda Islands
- Maldives
- Maltese islands
- Mascarene Islands
- *Seychelles Islands
- **Aldabra Group
- **Amirante Islands
- **Farquhar Group
- Melanesia
- *Bismarck Archipelago
- *Fiji Islands
- *New Caledonia (Kanaky)
- **Loyalty Islands
- *Solomon Islands
- *Vanuatu (New Hebrides)
- Mergui Archipelago
- Micronesia
- *Caroline Islands
- *Gilbert Islands (Kiribati)
- *Line Islands
- *Mariana Islands
- *Marshall Islands
- **Ralik Chain
- **Ratak Chain
- *Palau
- *Phoenix Islands
- New Siberian Islands
- Nicobar Islands
- New England and New York islands (Manhattan, City Island, Long Island, Rikers Island, Roosevelt Island, Staten Island, Block Island, Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, Liberty Island, Ellis Island, Governors Island, Long Beach Island, Elizabeth Islands)
- Novaya Zemlya islands
- Polynesia
- *Cook Islands (Hervey Islands)
- *French Polynesia
- **Austral Islands
- **Gambier Islands
- **Marquesas
- **Society Islands
- ***Îles du vent (Windward Islands)
- ***Îles sous le vent (Leeward Islands)
- **Tuamotus
- *Hawaiian Islands (Sandwich Islands)
- *New Zealand islands (Aotearoa)
- *Pitcairn Islands
- *Samoan Islands (Navigators' Islands)
- **American Samoa (Eastern Samoa)
- **Samoa (Western Samoa)
- *Tonga Islands (Friendly Islands)
- *Tokelau (Union Islands)
- *Tuvalu (Ellice Islands)
- *Wallis and Futuna Islands
- **Horne Islands
- Pontine Islands
- Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii)
- Saint Helena islands
- San Juan Islands
- Severnaya Zemlya
- Seychelles
- Solentiname Islands
- South China Sea Islands
- *Paracel Islands
- *Spratly Islands
- South Orkney Islands
- South Sandwich Islands
- South Shetland Islands
- Svalbard
- Tanzania's Indian Ocean
- Thousand Islands
- Tierra del Fuego
- "The World", an archipelago of artificial islands being constructed off Dubai
- Tuscan Archipelago
- Venice islands
- Virgin Islands
See also
Lists of islands:- List of islands of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean
- List of islands in the Arctic Ocean
- List of islands of Asia
- List of islands in the Atlantic Ocean
- List of islands of Australia
- List of islands in the Baltic Sea
- List of islands of Canada
- List of islands in the Caribbean
- List of islands in the Indian Ocean
- List of islands of New Zealand
- List of islands of North America
- List of islands in the Pacific
- List of islands of South America
- List of islands in the United States
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