An archipelago ( ), sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain or cluster of islands.

Adaptive radiations often occur as a result of an organism arising in an environment with unoccupied niches, such as a newly formed lake or isolated island chain.

Knowing they had arrived at the exact latitude of the island chain, they sailed due west on the trade winds to landfall.

These peoples, sometimes referred to as the neo-Taíno nations, had migrated north along the Caribbean island chain.

The word ' Miyake ' comes from Miyake-jima which is an island of the Izu Island chain and located at 180 km south of Tokyo.

The map consists of a standard Settlers island, along with a smaller chain of outlying islands.

At the close of the 20th Century, all of the Earth's kaiju have been collected and confined in an area known as Monster Island, by the United Nations Science Committee, in the Ogasawara island chain.

The flooded grasslands and savannas ecoregion in the south central region of the island surrounds a chain of lakes and lagoons in which the most notable include that of Lake Azuei and Trou Caïman in Haiti and the nearby Lake Enriquillo in the Dominican Republic.

Japan claims the Russian-administered Kuril Islands, the four southernmost isles of the island chain north of Hokkaido, annexed by the Soviet Union following World War II.

Location: Eastern Asia, island chain between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, east of the Korean Peninsula.

The northernmost antipodal island in the Ryukyu Island chain, Nakanoshima, is opposite the Brazilian coast near Capão da Canoa.

For much of the subsequent period, the main island chain, the Gilbert Islands, was ruled as part of the British Empire.

Among other things, the island chain has played a role in preserving unique biological lineages from the Mesozoic.

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.

File: Olympus Mons and Hawaii to scale. png | Olympus Mons ( top ) and the Hawaiian island chain ( bottom ), at the same scale.

includes World War II battleground of Peleliu and world-famous rock islands ; archipelago of six island groups totaling over 200 islands in the Caroline chain

* Map of main island chain of Palau

The country consists of the main island of Saint Vincent and the northern two-thirds of the Grenadines, a chain of small islands stretching south from Saint Vincent to Grenada.

Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States quickly resolved to end the hostilities ; with the partitioning of the island chain at the Tripartite Convention of 1899.

Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States quickly resolved to end the hostilities ; with the partitioning of the island chain at the Tripartite Convention of 1899.

The Indian Ocean borders the west, northwest and southwest sides of Sumatra with the island chain of Simeulue, Nias and Mentawai bordering along the southwestern coast.

The backbone of the island is the Barisan Mountain chain, with the active volcano Mount Kerinci as the highest point at 3, 805 m ( 12, 467 ft ), located at about the midpoint of the range.

At the same time, the most western island of the Juan Fernández Islands was renamed Alejandro Selkirk Island although Selkirk probably never saw that island ( 97 miles west ).

In Yunnan, China, inhabitants would flee from their homes as soon as they saw dead rats, and on the island of Formosa ( Taiwan ), residents considered the handling of dead rats heightened the risks of developing plague.

Known as " Île Royale " to the French, the island also saw active settlement by France.

The US saw the island as a strategically important one.

During his trip, a tempest forced him to stop on an island near Guangzhou, China where he saw the rich merchant Diogo Pereira, an old friend from Cochin, who showed him a letter from Portuguese being held prisoners in Guangzhou asking for a Portuguese ambassador to talk to the Chinese Emperor in their favor.

In September he spent a fortnight on the island of Jura in the Inner Hebrides and saw it as a place to escape from the hassle of London literary life.

The Great Famine of Ireland during the 1840s saw a significant number of people flee from the island to all over the world.

A Hong Kong building boom in the mid 1970s saw Jardine's buy Gammon Construction, the largest construction and civil engineering group on the island.

* 1493 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before.

However, both the location of the island and its name were quoted in a Dutch book in 1508, which described a 1505 Portuguese expedition led by Francisco de Almeida from the East Indies: " n the twenty-first day of July we saw land, and it was an island lyng six hundred and fifty miles from the Cape, and called Saint Helena, howbeit we could not land there.

[...] And after we left the island of Saint Helena, we saw another island two hundred miles from there, which is called Ascension ".

More recently, in 1980 and 1987, hurricanes devastated banana and coconut plantations ; 1998 and 1999 also saw very active hurricane seasons, with Hurricane Lenny in 1999 causing extensive damage to the west coast of the island.

The three Fuegian missionaries the expedition returned to Tierra del Fuego were friendly and civilised, yet to Darwin their relatives on the island seemed " miserable, degraded savages ", and he no longer saw an unbridgeable gap between humans and animals.

The Aztecs saw this vision on what was then a small swampy island in Lake Texcoco, a vision that is now immortalized in Mexico's coat of arms and on the Mexican flag.

The country witnessed battles of the Thirty Years ' War and general hostilities of the Eighty Years ' War ; Phillip II and III of Portugal and later the Dutch and English used forts built from the destroyed temples, including Fort Fredrick in Trincomalee, to fight sea battles with the Dutch, Danish, the French and English which saw the beginning of the loss of the sovereign Tamil nation-state on the island.

The remote island was initially exploited for its minerals and kauri trees and saw only some limited agriculture.

He saw that the Moslem population was now on the decline, some being massacred, and some abandoning the island.

The rest of the 20th century saw a downturn for Madeira, both in sales and reputation, as low quality " cooking wine " became primarily associated with the island — much as it had for Marsala.

Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, another Portuguese navigator sailing for the Spanish Crown, saw a large island south of New Guinea in 1606, which he named La Australia del Espiritu Santo.

" When they arrived at an island in the lake, they saw an eagle which was perched on a nopal cactus full of its fruits ( nochtli ).

After the Russo-Japanese War, Russia and Japan signed the Treaty of Portsmouth of 1905, which saw the southern part of the island below 50th parallel north reverting to Japan ; Russia retained the other three-fifths of the area.

Herm's sandy beaches were soon used for practising landings from barges, in preparation for the invasion of England, but otherwise the island saw little of the Germans beyond officers making trips to shoot rabbits.