Gallurese is spoken in the extreme north of Sardinia, including the region of Gallura and the archipelago of La Maddalena.

It was around 2500 BC that the Austronesian people started to populate the archipelago and introduced primitive ironworks technology that they had mastered to the region.

Västervik and Valdemarsvik Municipality are part of the Tjust region with a rich archipelago.

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.

: Southeast Asia ( or Oceania depending on definitions ), northwest of Australia in the Lesser Sunda Islands at the eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago ; note-East Timor includes the eastern half of the island of Timor, the Ocussi-Ambeno region on the northwest portion of the island of Timor, and the islands of Atauro and Jaco

Archaeologist Junko Habu claims that " The majority of Japanese scholars believed, and still believe, that pottery production was first invented in mainland Asia and subsequently introduced into the Japanese archipelago ," and explains that " A series of excavations in the Amur River Basin in the 1980s and 1990s revealed that pottery in this region may be as old as, if not older than, Fukui Cave pottery ", which dates to around 10, 700 and was found in 1960.

The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands (,, or ; ; Japanese: ), in Russia's Sakhalin Oblast region, form a volcanic archipelago that stretches approximately northeast from Hokkaidō, Japan, to Kamchatka, Russia, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the North Pacific Ocean.

Southern Min is spoken in the southern part of Fujian province, three southeastern counties of Zhejiang province, the Zhoushan archipelago off Ningbo in Zhejiang, and the eastern part of Guangdong province ( Chaoshan region ).

Another island, also named Pianosa of the Isole Tremiti archipelago, lies off the Adriatic coast in the Apulia region of southern Italy, north of Monte Gargano.

Mainland is a name given to a large landmass in a region ( as contrasted with a nearby island or islands ), or to the largest of a group of islands in an archipelago.

The northern Pacific Northwest Coast, showing the position of the archipelago in relation to other islands in the region.

It belongs to the archipelago of the New Hebrides in the Pacific region of Melanesia.

It consists of an archipelago of seven islands that contain Pokémon normally exclusive to the Johto region.

The island is part of the Outer Lands region, a coastal archipelago made by the recessional and terminal moraine that resulted from the Wisconsonian Laurentide glacier retreat, about 22, 000 years ago.

Malesia was first identified as a floristic region that included the Malay Peninsula, the Malay archipelago, New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago, based on a shared tropical flora derived mostly from Asia but also with numerous elements of the Antarctic flora, including many species in the southern conifer families Podocarpaceae and Araucariaceae.

* Haddhunmathi-from Ihadhunmathi meaning the first seen ( iha ' dhuh ) part ( mathi ) or after the island of Ihadhoo ( first island ) that was located east of Isdhoo ; this is believed to be the first region of the archipelago that was settled by the ancient Dheyvis people.

The Samoan Islands or Samoa Islands is an archipelago covering in the central South Pacific, forming part of Polynesia and the wider region of Oceania.

The Summer Isles (, ) are an archipelago lying in the mouth of Loch Broom, in the Highland region of Scotland.

Long used as a base for whaling, as a sheep farm and for occasional attempts to collect guano, New Island is considered by some to be one of the most beautiful islands in the Falklands archipelago, as well as having possibly the most diverse range of wildlife in the region.

Additionally, since the independence of Ireland, historians of the region often avoid the term British Isles due to the complexity of relations between the peoples of the archipelago ( see: Terminology of the British Isles ).

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.

Värmdö is an island in the innermost region of the Stockholm archipelago and covers an area of 180 km², making it the largest island in the archipelago.

The most populous neighborhoods of the largest town in the region, Juneau, are on the mainland, though portions of the city also lie on Douglas Island, which is a part of the archipelago.

* Isla Culebra, the Spanish name of Sedge Island, part of the Falkland archipelago

As Stanley is the capital, and East Falkland is the most populous island, it performs an economic role as the hub of the archipelago.

For years, Port Louis was the main settlement, not only on East Falkland, but the entire archipelago and a subject of controversy.

The main objections to this plan were threefold: 1 ) Carcass Island, being in the west of the archipelago, was nearest to continental Argentine bases ; 2 ) its proximity to the airbase on Pebble Island ; and 3 ) its remoteness from Stanley, as it was furthest from the main objectives, and West Falkland was ultimately bypassed in the war.

The Jason Islands ( Spanish: Islas Sebaldes ) are an archipelago in the Falkland Islands, lying to the far north-west of West Falkland.

Beauchene is the most isolated island of the Falkland archipelago.

The sound was named by John Strong in 1690 for Viscount Falkland, the name only later being applied to the archipelago and its two largest islands.

In the 1990s, Steinhardt gave Steeple Jason Island and Grand Jason Island in the Falkland archipelago to the Wildlife Conservation Society ( WCS ), along with USD 425, 000 for a research station, to be named after himself and his wife .< ref >

The Juan Fernández Islands archipelago

The islands make up part of the Virgin Islands archipelago, the remaining islands constitute the U. S. Virgin Islands and the Spanish Virgin Islands.

They are located in the Virgin Islands archipelago, a few miles east of the U. S. Virgin Islands.

Although the Cantino planisphere ( 1504 ) and the Ruysch map ( 1507 ) clearly delineate the Maldive Islands, giving them the same names, they do not show any islands to the south which can be identified as the Chagos archipelago.

The people of Ono-i-Lau in the Lau Islands archipelago claim that Minerva Reef is part of their traditional fishing ground.

The Federated States of Micronesia ( FSM ) consists of 607 islands extending 1, 800 miles ( 2, 900 km ) across the archipelago of the Caroline Islands east of the Philippines.

On 5 March a German naval squadron landed in the southwestern archipelago of Finland, on the Åland Islands, which the Swedish military expedition had taken over in mid-February.

: Largest and southernmost island in the Mariana Islands archipelago ; strategic location in western North Pacific Ocean.

It considers the archipelago part of the Tierra del Fuego Province, along with South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

The Kerguelen Islands, along with the islands of Amsterdam and St. Paul, and the Crozet archipelago were officially annexed by France in 1893, and were included as possessions in the French constitution in 1924 ( in addition to that portion of Antarctica claimed by France and known as Adélie Land ; as with all Antarctic territorial claims, France's possession on the continent is held in abeyance until a new international treaty is ratified that defines each claimant's rights and obligations ).

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

The lake holds Ometepe and Zapatera which are both volcanic islands, as well as the archipelago of the Solentiname Islands.

Islands in the archipelago were first explored by Europeans in the 1520s, with Spanish explorer Alonso de Salazar sighting an atoll in August 1526.

The US government added the archipelago to the U. S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, along with several other island groups in the South Sea.

The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of Pines and a few remote islets.

New Caledonia is made up of a main island, the Grande Terre, and several smaller islands, the Belep archipelago to the north of the Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands to the east of the Grande Terre, the ( Isle of Pines ) to the south of the Grande Terre, the Chesterfield Islands and Bellona Reefs further to the west.

There is disagreement as to whether Spaniard Ruy López de Villalobos, who landed in several Caroline Islands, spotted the Palau archipelago in 1543.

It was Wilson who gave the archipelago the name " Pelew Islands ".

After being defeated in 1898 in the Spanish-American War and losing possession of the Philippine Islands, Spain sold the Palau archipelago to Imperial Germany in the 1899 German-Spanish Treaty.