European control of the Bandas was contested up until 1667 when, under the Treaty of Breda ( 1667 ), the British traded the small island of Run for Manhattan, giving the Dutch full control of the Banda archipelago.

However, the archipelago can be divided into four broad ecological zones ( arid, semiarid, subhumid and humid ), according to altitude and average annual rainfall ranging from 200 mm in the arid areas of the coast to more than 1 000 mm in the humid mountain.

The Islas de la Bahía archipelago also has a number of smaller islands, among them the islets of Barbareta ( Isla Barbareta ), Santa Elena ( Isla Santa Elena ), and Morat ( Isla Morat ).

The archipelago administratively belongs to Chile's Valparaíso Region ( which also includes Easter Island ), and more specifically forms one of the nine communes ( comunas ) of the Valparaíso Province named Juan Fernández.

The French colonised Martinique ( 1635 ), the Guadeloupe archipelago ( 1635 ), St. Martin ( 1648 ), and St. Barths ( 1648 ) and Saint Croix ( 1650 ).

The archipelago makes up the majority ( 99 %) of the territory of the Republic of China ( ROC ), after the ROC lost its mainland China territory in the Chinese Civil War and fled to the island in 1949.

Recent liberalisation in the property market allowing non citizens to buy freehold land has resulted in a major boom in the construction and real estate sectors, with several signature developments such as the 2 Palm Islands, the World ( archipelago ), Dubai Marina, Jumeirah Lake Towers, and a number of other developments, offering villas and high rise apartments and office space.

Since the 7th century, the Old Malay language has been used in Nusantara ( Indonesian archipelago ), marked by Srivijaya inscriptions and in other inscriptions of coastal areas of the archipelago, such as those discovered in Java.

* Maluku ( province ), a province of Indonesia comprising the central and southern parts of the archipelago

* Pitta ( island ), an island in the Dodecanese archipelago, in the Aegean Sea

* Zea ( island ), an island of the Cyclades archipelago

Over half of the lake's area is taken up by its many small islands ( including Bogomerom archipelago ), reedbeds and mud banks, and a belt of swampland across the middle divides the northern and southern halves while the shorelines are largely composed of marshes.

* Marathi ( Μαράθι ), a small island in the Dodecanese archipelago, close to Arki, renowned for its attractive beach

Numerous dialects of Sinama are spoken throughout the archipelago, from the Tawi-Tawi Island group, to the Mapun island group ( Mapun ), to the coast of Mindanao and beyond.

The island of Delos (, ; Attic, Doric ), near Mykonos, near the centre of the Cyclades archipelago, is one of the most important mythological, historical and archaeological sites in Greece.

The municipality covers a peninsula in Lake Vänern ( Värmlandsnäs ), and has a large fresh water archipelago.

* Rota ( island ), in the Marianas archipelago

Donovan is greeted by William " Doc " Dedham ( Warden ), also a U. S. Navy veteran and the only physician in the archipelago, who is about to begin a one or two week pre-Christmas circuit of the " outer islands ," taking care of the health needs of the residents.

* " Vågmärken " ( The wave-sign ), poems about the archipelago 1937-1987, 1988

This event was subsequently followed by the emergence of powerful Malay sultanates like the Kedah Sultanate ( 1136 ), Brunei Sultanate ( 1363 ), Malacca Sultanate ( 1402 ) and Pattani Kingdom ( 1516 ), that dominated the western Malay archipelago and northern Borneo.

The word Antilles originated in the period before the European conquest of the New World — Antilia being one of those mysterious lands which figured on the medieval charts, sometimes as an archipelago, sometimes as continuous land of greater or lesser extent, its location fluctuating in mid-ocean between the Canary Islands and India.

The island of Montecristo, like all the islands of the archipelago, has a mild climate, with a constant sea breeze, lots of sun, and very little rainfall ( average annual values much lower than ); the climate is characterised by mild and moderately rainy winters and summers that are hot and dry, but sometimes very muggy.

The Mariana Islands ( also the Marianas ; up to the early 20th century sometimes called Ladrones Islands, from Spanish Islas de los Ladrones meaning " Islands of Thieves ") are an arc-shaped archipelago made up by the summits of fifteen volcanic mountains in the north-western Pacific Ocean between the 12th and 21st parallels north and along the 145th meridian east.

The northeastern part of the archipelago is locked in pack ice most of the year round ; however the ice sometimes retreats north past the islands in summer ( September ).

In the eastern archipelago, all settlements are located on land, sometimes some distance inland.

The archipelago was called the " East Indies " in the European colonial era and is still sometimes referred to as such, but broader usages of the " East Indies " term had included Indochina and the Indian subcontinent.

* The pagan island of " Summerisle " featured in the motion picture The Wicker Man ( filmed in 1973 & directed by Robin Hardy ) is sometimes mistakenly associated with this archipelago, but in actuality The Wicker Man was filmed around Newton Stewart in Dumfries and Galloway.

Nordaustlandet ( sometimes translated as North East Land ) is the second-largest island in the archipelago of Svalbard, Norway, with an area of.

The islet of Banc du Geyser and the Glorioso Islands are sometimes included as part of the archipelago.

The Formigas Islet () and Dollabarat Reef, sometimes referred to as the Formigas Bank, are a remote group of rock outcroppings in the eastern group of the Azores archipelago, an autonomous region of Portugal.

While often interpreted literally to mean that Gajah Mada would not allow his food to be spiced ( palapa is the prose combination of pala apa = any fruits / spices ) the oath is sometimes interpreted to mean that Gajah Mada would abstain from all earthly pleasures ( fruits and spices ) until he conquered the entire known archipelago for Majapahit.

The large slit gongs which symbolize Vanuatu belong to these traditional instruments ; they were most often used as musical drums to accompany certain dances, but also sometimes – though seldom – as a ritual means of communication ; although widespread throughout Vanuatu, they are used vertically only in central areas of the archipelago ( mainly on Ambrym ).

In Iceland and Scandinavia, colonies of more than 5, 000 birds sometimes develop in " farmed " areas, while in some protected areas of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, nest densities exceed 13, 000 per hectare ( more than 5, 260 per acre ).

Over the years he used various tricks to dodge police boats — and sometimes the bullets of their machine guns — during his trips between Turku, Helsinki, Tallinn and Stockholm and in the Åland archipelago.

It was used in antebellum Japan to distinguish the Japanese archipelago from Japan's colonies ( Gaichi ); modern usage of the term by residents of Hokkaido and Okinawa sometimes refer to " Naichi " as being the central islands outside of Hokkaido and Okinawa.

It has spread to all the islands in the archipelago, and is sometimes called the Galápagos marine iguana.

On Maddalena archipelago the local dialect ( called Isulanu, Maddaleninu, Maddalenino ) was brought by fishermen and shepherds from Bonifacio during immigration in the 17th-18th centuries.

A grouping of geographically or geologically related islands is called an archipelago.

In an archipelago like the Hawaiian Islands the water between islands is typically called a channel or passage.

After the introduction of Islam to the archipelago in 13th century, the island was also called Andalas by Muslim travellers.

Taiwan ( historically called " Formosa " especially prior to 1945, from Portuguese: Ilha Formosa, " Beautiful Island ") is an island and an archipelago in East Asia, composed of Taiwan Island and several much smaller islands such as the Penghu Islands, Orchid Island, Green Island, and Hsiao Liuchiu.

The archipelago consists of a main island, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, often called simply Tierra del Fuego or Isla Grande, with an area of, and a group of smaller islands.

La Maddalena is part of an archipelago called Arcipelago della Maddalena.

However, unlike the large modern Indonesian archipelago of the Maluku Islands, to 16th-century Europeans the Moluccas were a small chain of islands, the only place on Earth where cloves grew, just west of the large north Malukan island of Halmahera ( called Gilolo at the time ).

" LP5 " was finished on 12 November 2009, and it was called Heligoland, after the German archipelago of Heligoland.

The expedition called at Samboangan ( Zamboanga ) on Mindanao, and then Iloilo on the island of Panay, before navigating within the interior of the archipelago en route to the bay and harbour of Manila on the island of Luzon.

The municipality has a small archipelago with some 30 islands, called Tösse skärgård, to the south of the city.

Ertholmene, generally called Christiansø, is a small archipelago situated approximately 18 km northeast of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea.

After the dissolution of the republic, Zamboanga was eventually consolidated into one major administrative area by the American government of the Philippines, consisting of an enormous region that was the Mindanao island's western peninsula, Basilan island, and the entire Sulu archipelago, with the ancient namesake town – fort of Zamboanga as the seat of its government, and was called the Moro Province of the Philippines.

It was only the people of the archipelago and reaches who entered the Dry Land after death, on account of the actions of what the Kargish traditionally called their ' accursed sorcerors '

The archipelago is called Rekohu (" misty sun ") in the indigenous language Moriori, and Wharekauri in Māori.

Marquand called it, " the most desolate and lonely of all the islands in our archipelago.

Burano is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy ; like Venice itself, it could more correctly be called an archipelago of four islands linked by bridges.

After the 1492 arrival of Christopher Columbus's expedition in what was later called the West Indies, the European powers realized that the dispersed lands comprised an extensive archipelago enclosing the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico.

Entering the waters of the Philippine archipelago, the galleons called at the fortified island of Capul off Samar, offered thanks for a safe crossing at the Jesuit church, and then negotiated the rough waters of narrow San Bernardino Strait toward Manila, their final destination.

) included the Bahrain archipelago which earlier called Aval, but later, in the Islamic era, became known as Bahrain.

The name " Gulf Islands " comes from " Gulf of Georgia ," the original term used by George Vancouver in his mapping of the southern part of the archipelago and which before the San Juan Island dispute also was taken to include what have since been called the San Juan Islands.

The archipelago is also known as ' The Seven Hunters ', and in the Middle Ages they may also have been called the ' Seven Haley ( Holy ) Isles '.