Archipelagoes

thumb|upright=1.6|The Indonesian Archipelago, located in Asia and [[Oceania, is the largest archipelagic state in the world.]] thumb|upright|The Aegean Sea with its large number of islands is the origin of the term archipelago. thumb|The Mergui Archipelago in Myanmar An archipelago ( ), sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands. An archipelago may be in an ocean, a sea, or a smaller body of water. Examples of archipelagos include the Aegean Islands (the origin of the term), the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the Stockholm Archipelago, the Mal

arc-shaped archipelago

chain of volcanoes formed above a subducting plate

island country that consists of an archipelago

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