The word archipelago was originally applied specifically to the Aegean Sea and its islands.

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.

In October 1704, after the ships had parted ways because of a dispute between Stradling and Dampier, the Cinque Ports was brought by Stradling to an island that is today known as Robinson Crusoe Island in the uninhabited archipelago of Juan Fernández off the coast of Chile for a mid-expedition restocking of supplies and fresh water.

The traditional theory holds that John the Apostle — considered to have written the Gospel and the epistles of John — was exiled on Patmos in the Aegean archipelago during the reign of Domitian, and there wrote Revelation.

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.

The archipelago is subject to cyclical droughts ; a devastating drought began in 1968 and was broken only briefly in 1975, 1978, 1984, and 1986.

The Cape Verde archipelago was uninhabited when the Portuguese discovered it in 1456.

The new nation was defined as consisting of the entire archipelago, despite the fact that France maintains control over Mayotte.

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.

* The Snouters: Form and Life of the Rhinogrades, by Zoologist Gerolf Steiner, purports to be a non-fictional natural history study, and was written, published, and presented as if it were an actual scientific treatise documenting the recently-extinct indigenous wildlife (" Rhinogradentia ") of the equally fictitious Hi-yi-yi archipelago.

The Malays remained politically fragmented throughout the Malay archipelago, although a common culture and social structure was shared.

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

Fossilised remains of Homo erectus and his tools, popularly known as the " Java Man ", suggest the Indonesian archipelago was inhabited by at least 1. 5 million years ago.

Indonesia alleged that Fretilin was communist, and feared that an independent East Timor would influence separatism in the archipelago.

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 location of the archipelago was fixed by Alessandro Malaspina in 1790.

Soon after their discovery, the archipelago was regularly visited by whalers and sealers ( mostly British, American and Norwegian ) who hunted the resident populations of whales and seals to the point of near extinction, including fur seals in the 18th century and elephant seals in the 19th century.

* The New Caledonia archipelago, which includes Grande Terre, Belep, and the Île des Pins was born as a series of folds of the earth's mantle between the Permian period ( 299-251 mya ) and the Tertiary period ( 65-1. 5 mya ).

The New Caledonian archipelago is a microcontinental island chain which originated as a fragment of Zealandia, a nearly submerged continent or microcontinent which was part of the southern supercontinent of Gondwana during the time of the dinosaurs.

The archipelago has been under Colombian control since 1931 when a treaty was signed during US occupation of Nicaragua, giving Colombia control over the islands.

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

In September, 2010 a treaty was made between Russia and Norway fixing the boundary between the Svalbard archipelago and the Novaya Zemlya archipelago.

The most recently formed of the four islands in the archipelago, it is also of volcanic origin.

The East African nation of Tanzania dates formally from 1964, when it was formed out of the union of the much larger mainland territory of Tanganyika and the coastal archipelago of Zanzibar.

Venice is built on an archipelago of 117 islands formed by 177 canals in a shallow lagoon, connected by 409 bridges.

Mayotte is part of the Comoro Islands, and like them is the result of a former hot spot, the oldest of the Comoros archipelago, formed about 7. 7 mya.

In the Azores archipelago lagoons were formed in extinct volcanos.

Islam spread in the Malay archipelago when Arabic traders came to trade spices with the Malays ; at that time, Hinduism formed the basis of the Malay culture, but syncretism with the Islamic religion and culture spawned the idea of a Bidadari.

An artificial island or man-made island is an island or archipelago that has been constructed by people rather than formed by natural means.

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.

Since the settlement, no eruptions had been known to occur on the islands until 1963, when a new member of the archipelago, Surtsey, was formed by a four-year eruption which began offshore about south-west of Heimaey.

The archipelago is unique in that it features ridged washboard moraines known as De Geer moraines, formed by the melting of the continental ice sheet 10, 000 to 24, 000 years ago.

The archipelago became part of the Italian colony of Eritrea, when it was formed in 1890.

The archipelago was formed from the ancient delta of the Rio Geba and the Rio Grande and spans an area of 2, 624 km < sup > 2 </ sup > ( 1, 184 sq.

In late 1917 soldier and sailors revolted in the major naval base of the archipelago, Surabaya, and formed soviets.

The Slate Islands archipelago is formed of two main islands, five minor islands and numerous islets located in northern Lake Superior, 10 km ( 6. 2 mi ) south of the town of Terrace Bay.

It is an isolated outpost of the Inner Hebrides archipelago composed of Lewisian gneiss, formed in the Precambrian eon, these rocks being amongst the most ancient rocks in Europe.

This Cambrian age formation was deposited in a shallow sea around the Precambrian age St. Francois Mountains, which formed an island archipelago.

The ice-covered area during such a typical winter includes the Gulf of Bothnia, the Gulf of Finland, Gulf of Riga, Väinameri in the Estonian archipelago, the Stockholm archipelago and the Archipelago Sea.

The Islamic Caliphate and other Islamic states took over the Middle East, Caucasus and Central Asia during the Muslim conquests of the 7th century, and later expanded into the Indian subcontinent and Malay archipelago.

The entire island archipelago is geologically young, having begun to form probably less than 50 million years ago, during the Miocene era.

This was one of the major islands of an archipelago which the Spaniards had reached during their voyages westward from the New World.

Free Blacks, who were the majority of Black Bermudians in the 17th century, were threatened with enslavement as an attempt to encourage their emigration, and slave owners were encouraged to export enslaved Blacks ( with all slaves seen, like horses on an archipelago with dense forests and few roads, as a status symbol ) whenever a war loomed, as they were portrayed as unnecessary bellies to feed during times of shortage ( even before abandoning agriculture for maritime activities in 1684, Bermuda had become reliant on food imports ).

Convicts housed in hulks were used to build the Royal Naval Dockyard there, and during the Second Boer War, Boer prisoners-of-war were sent to the archipelago and imprisoned on one of the smaller islands.

In Finland, small hovercraft are widely used in maritime rescue and during the rasputitsa (" mud season ") as archipelago liaison vehicles.

Peranakan Chinese and Baba-Nyonya are terms used for the descendants of late 15th and 16th-century Chinese immigrants to the Indonesian archipelago of Nusantara during the Colonial era.

Most settlements in the archipelago are served during weekdays with the Bell 212 helicopter.

The monsoon wind that blow to northwest during dry season ( March to October ) conveniently brought trade vessels sailing from Southern Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Mollucas and eastern parts of the archipelago to Malacca ; in wet season ( October to March ) the wind blow from mainland Asia to southeast, conveniently brought trade vessels sailing from ports in Northern Sumatra, India, Siam, Cambodia, Vietnam and China to converge in Malacca.

* Floreana ( Charles or Santa María ) Island – It was named after Juan José Flores, the first President of Ecuador, during whose administration the government of Ecuador took possession of the archipelago.

According to Hanihara, modern Japanese lineages began with Jōmon people, who moved into the Japanese archipelago during Paleolithic times from their homeland in southeast Asia.

Following a population expansion in Neolithic times, these newcomers then found their way to the Japanese archipelago sometime during the Yayoi period.

Archaeological evidence indicates that Stone Age people lived in the Japanese archipelago during the Paleolithic period between 39, 000 and 21, 000 years ago.

The English and Irish sources are more contemporary, but may have " led to a southern bias in the story ", especially as much of the Hebridean archipelago became Norse-speaking during the period under consideration.

A disputed archipelago in the South China Sea, the uninhabited Senkaku Islands are stated by Japan to have become part of their territory as terra nullius during the nineteenth century.

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 ).

Kreuger had private apartments in Stockholm, New York, Paris, and Warsaw, and a country place used during the summer season on the private island Ängsholmen in the archipelago of Stockholm.