The archipelago of the Azores is located in the middle of the northern hemisphere of the Atlantic Ocean and extends along a west-northwest to east-southeast orientation ( between 36. 5 °– 40 ° North latitudes and 24. 5 °– 31. 5 ° West longitudes ) in an area approximately 600 km wide.

It is the largest and most populated of the Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea, and also the westernmost of this archipelago, which extends to Denmark.

The archipelago extends from the northwestern coast of Sigguup Nunaa peninsula in the south at approximately to the southern end of Melville Bay () in the north at approximately.

Off the Southern California coast the Channel Islands archipelago of the Santa Monica Mountains extends for 160 miles.

On the Svalbard archipelago further north this period extends from April 20 to August 22.

The archipelago extends for 160 miles ( 257. 51 kilometers ) between San Miguel Island in the north and San Clemente Island in the south.

This marks the easternmost occurrence of teak, an important timber tree which extends naturally from India to Thailand on the Asian mainland and also is present on Java in the Indonesian archipelago.

The Bismarck archipelago extends round to the east and north of the sea, enclosing the Bismarck Sea and separating it from the Pacific Ocean.

The largest civil parish in the archipelago, it extends the interior mountainous area of the southern part of the island, its northern and eastern portions covered in forests.

By maintaining permanent occupation of the archipelago, the Brazilian Navy extends Brazil's Exclusive Economic Zone, territorial waters and airspace into the North Atlantic Ocean.

The archipelago extends from Stockholm roughly 60 kilometers to the east.

Unlike the other islands of the archipelago, Fuerteventura has a shelf which at some points goes up to 30 km, making it an ideal place to practice this sport.

However, some scholars claim that the archipelago was deserted during the 11th century.

The archipelago numbers some 7, 107 islands and the nation claims an exclusive economic zone ( EEZ ) of from its shores.

Like the mainland of Chile and Argentina to the north, this archipelago boasts some of the finest trout fishing in the world.

There are 172 islands in the archipelago, some little more than rocks, and over of shoreline.

The nation is an archipelago of 155 tropical islands, some granite and some coral.

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

The coastal line is signified by an archipelago with some 300 islands and islets, whereof two are nature reserves.

It is thought that the arrival of the aborigines to the archipelago led to the extinction of some big reptiles and insular mammals, for example, the giant lizard Gallotia goliath ( which managed to reach up to a meter in length ) and Canariomys bravoi, the giant rat of Tenerife.

The Hawaiian Islands () are an archipelago of eight major islands, several atolls, numerous smaller islets, and undersea seamounts in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some from the

In 1842 a small party of Māori and their Moriori slaves from the Chatham Islands migrated to the archipelago, surviving for some 20 years on sealing and flax growing.

Kinmen or Quemoy (; see also " Names " section below ) is a small archipelago of several islands administered by Republic of China ( Taiwan ): Greater Kinmen, Lesser Kinmen, and some islets.

The manufacture of pottery typically implies some form of sedentary life due to the fact that pottery is highly breakable and thus generally useless to hunter-gatherers who are constantly on the move ; however this does not seem to have been the case with the first Jōmon people, who perhaps numbered some 20, 000 over the whole archipelago.

Over one hundred domains clashed and warred throughout the archipelago, as clans rose and fell, boundaries shifted, and some of the largest battles in all of global pre-modern history were fought.

The ikki and a handful of other militant religious factions thus presented significant powers unto themselves, and fought fierce battles against some of the chief generals and samurai clans in the archipelago.

Mǐn or Miin (; BUC: ) is the name of a broad group of Chinese languages spoken by 60 million people in the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian as well as by migrants from this province in Guangdong ( around Chaozhou-Swatou, or Chaoshan area, and the Leizhou peninsula ), Hainan, three counties in southern Zhejiang, and Zhoushan archipelago off Ningbo, and some towns in Liyang and Jiangyin city in Jiangsu province, and Taiwan.

Based on more than a dozen genetic markers on a variety of chromosomes and from archaeological data showing habitation of the Japanese archipelago dating back 30, 000 years, it is argued that the Jōmon actually came from northeastern Asia and settled on the islands far earlier than some have proposed.

It has been introduced into a wide range of tropical and subtropical environments including Caribbean islands, some Indian Ocean islands ( Seychelles, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, the Cocos Islands and the Christmas Islands ) and some Pacific islands ( New Caledonia, Hawaii, French Polynesia, Okinawa, Vanuatu, Micronesia and the Galapagos archipelago )

In the course of their migration, these primitive nomads were believed to have separated their ways in some portions of the archipelago in a spirit of adventure and search for food ( i. e., during the pleisto scene of the glacial ages ).

With 35 km in length and 140 islands, some large, some small, in a sea area of about 320 km², the Kornati are the densest archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea.

The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι-– arkhi-(" chief ") and πέλαγος – pélagos (" sea ") through the Italian arcipelago.

* 1816 – The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, ruling them from the Cape Colony in South Africa.

In another study, ancient DNA recovered from 16 Jomon skeletons excavated from Funadomari site, Hokkaido, Japan was analyzed to elucidate the genealogy of the early settlers of the Japanese archipelago.

Prior to major influence from outside, there were approximately 25, 000 Aleuts on the 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.

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.

Home to a diverse population hailing from across the Japanese archipelago the island witnessed the birth of a unique culture with the drum at the center of it all.

With the rise of Islam in the 7th century the power of Aksum declined and the Kingdom became isolated, the Dahlak archipelago, northern and western Eritrea, came under increasing control of Islamic powers based in Yemen and Beja lands in Sudan. The Beja were often in alliance with the Umayyads of Arabia who themselves established footholds along stretches of the Eritrean coastline and the Dahlak archipelago while the Funj of Sudan exacted tribute from the adjacent western lowlands of Eritrea.

An archipelago in the region of the Falkland Islands appeared on Portuguese maps from the early 16th century.

On the average, winter lasts from early December to mid March in the archipelago and the southwestern coast and from early October to early May in Lapland.

The archipelago was discovered by chance on November 22, 1574, by the Spanish sailor Juan Fernández, who was sailing between Peru and Valparaíso and deviated from his planned course.

The volcanic origin and remote location of the islands meant that the islands ' flora and fauna had to reach the archipelago from far across the sea ; as a result, the island is home to relatively few plant species and very few animal species.

It is separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago.

The various islands of the archipelago are separated from one another and the Canadian mainland by a series of Arctic waterways collectively known as the Northwest Passages or Northwestern Passages.

The archipelago is approximately equidistant from the coastlines of Vietnam and China, 180 nautical miles southeast of Hainan Island, and about one-third of the way from central Vietnam to the northern Philippines.

The archipelago is around 800 km from the Asian mainland and is located between Taiwan and Borneo.

The summer monsoon brings heavy rains to most of the archipelago from May to October, whereas the winter monsoon brings cooler and drier air from December to February.

In the book the author gives an account of a voyage to the archipelago of St. Kilda and its proximity to Rockall: "... and from it lies Rokol, a small rock sixty leagues to the westward of St. Kilda ; the inhabitants of this place call it ' Rokabarra '.

The nearest point on land from Rockall is 301. 3 km, or 162. 7 nmi, east at the uninhabited Scottish island of Soay in the St. Kilda archipelago.