The archipelago consists of 10 islands and 5 islets, divided into the windward ( Barlavento ) and leeward ( Sotavento ) groups.

The Comoros archipelago consists of four main islands aligned along a northwest-southeast axis at the north end of the Mozambique Channel, between Mozambique and the island of Madagascar.

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.

The archipelago consists of two islands, Grande Glorieuse () and Île du Lys, as well as eight rock islets ( Roches Vertes ): Wreck Rock (), South Rock () and Verte Rocks () and three others that are unnamed.

It consists of an island archipelago off the coast of Newfoundland near North America.

The main island of the archipelago is Taiwan Island, which comprises about 99 % of the current jurisdiction of the Republic of China ; the other 1 % consists of the smaller islands of the archipelago such as Orchid Island and the Penghu islands, along with the tiny islets-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.

The name " Tristan da Cunha " is also used for the archipelago, which consists of the following islands:

The archipelago consists of 36, 563 islands, of which 94 are classified as major islands, being larger than, and cover a total area of.

The municipality consists of 10, 000 islands, all part of Stockholm archipelago.

The municipality consists of the islands Hammarön and Vidön and the adjacent archipelago.

It consists of about half of the Atlantic archipelago, including the islands of Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, and Lanzarote, as well as another six minor isles ( Alegranza, Graciosa, Montaña Clara, Lobos, Roque del Este, and Roque del Oeste ).

It consists of about half of the Atlantic archipelago: the islands of Tenerife, La Gomera, El Hierro, and La Palma.

The municipality consists of a group of islands, located south of Bergen where the Hardangerfjord and the coastal archipelago meet.

The province consists of an archipelago in the Andaman Sea with over 46 islands.

The Commonwealth consists of a chain of fifteen tropical islands belonging to the Marianas archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean.

The Mafia archipelago consists of one large island ( 394 km² ) and several smaller ones.

* The Kornati archipelago, west of Šibenik, consists of 150 islands in a sea area of about 320 km², making it the densest archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea.

With little fresh water and surrounded by dangerous reefs ( which makes limited access difficult ), the archipelago consists of two major islands and several islets, in two groups about apart, designated:

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

The Vestmannaeyjar ( Icelandic for Westman islands ) archipelago lies off the south coast of Iceland, and consists of several small islands, all formed by eruptions in the Holocene epoch.

The archipelago consists of 6, 852 islands (" island " defined as land more than 100 m in circumference ), of which 430 are inhabited.

For over six centuries the Maharajahs of Srivijaya ruled a maritime empire that became the main power in the archipelago.

South of Ardnamurchan Gaelic place names are the most common and, after the 13th century, Gaelic became the main language of the entire Hebridean archipelago.

Three endemic species dominate the tall and lower montane forests of the archipelago, Drimys confertifolia on both main islands, Myrceugenia fernandeziana on Robinson Crusoe, and M. schulzei on Alexander Selkirk.

The main island, Grande Terre, is in area and is surrounded by a further 300 smaller islands and islets, forming an archipelago of.

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.

The archipelago of Culebra, located east of Puerto Rico, north of Vieques, and west of the Virgin Islands, is composed of the main island of Culebra and 28 uninhabited islets.

The archipelago is divided by an east-west channel, the Beagle Channel, immediately south of the main island.

The eastern part of the main island, and a few small islands in the Beagle Channel, belong to Argentina, being part of the Tierra del Fuego, Antarctic Territory and South Atlantic Islands Province ; its capital is Ushuaia, the biggest city of the archipelago.

The main islands form an archipelago of which the major islands include Lewis and Harris, North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist, and Barra.

The archipelago is geographically subdivided into several groups, most significantly those around the main islands Basilan, Jolo and Tawi-Tawi.

Their main territory is the archipelago of Haida Gwaii in northern British Columbia, but many live across the water in southern Alaska.

Al Janbi's theory is the most widely accepted one by modern scholars, although there are some difficulties with this argument given that Al Ahsa is 60 km inland and thus less likely to be the starting point for a trader's route, making the location within the archipelago of islands comprising the modern Kingdom of Bahrain, particularly the main island of Bahrain itself, another possibility.

The route from Wellington to Tonga went along the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, and then north and east into the open Pacific, passing by the Kermadec Islands en route to Tongatabu, the main island of the Tonga archipelago ( then known as the Friendly Islands ).

Culebra is an archipelago consisting of the main island and twenty-three smaller islands that lie off its coast.

New Castle occupies an archipelago, consisting of one main island ( Great Island ) and several smaller islands surrounded by the Piscataqua River and Atlantic Ocean.

In the 2001 Census, the archipelago was found to support a population of 12, 818, down from 13, 991 in 1991 – the official 2006 census figure is 13, 091 – whose main occupations include lobster fishing.

Maclean ( 1972 ) further suggests that the Dutch may have simply made a cartographical error, and confused Hirta with Skildar, the old name for Haskeir island much nearer the main Outer Hebrides archipelago.

The 13 main islands ( with a land area larger than 1 km < sup > 2 </ sup >) of the archipelago ( with their English names ) shown alphabetically: