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- noun Plural form of
archipelago .
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Examples
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Galaxies are the vast archipelagoes of stars filling space, such as our own spiral-shaped Milky Way galaxy.
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There still are plenty of questions about how the ship ended up here, Guggenheim says. “How the captain of a ship could crash into one of the most remote archipelagoes of the world far away from shipping lanes is a mystery to me.”
Rocky Kistner: A World Away From the Gulf, Penguins Fight Oil Too Rocky Kistner 2011
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So the sodden coast, with its long inside reaches and huge mud-land archipelagoes, was avoided by the ships of men, and the fisherfolk knew not that such things were.
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So the sodden coast, with its long inside reaches and huge mud-land archipelagoes, was avoided by the ships of men, and the fisherfolk knew not that such things were.
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There still are plenty of questions about how the ship ended up here, Guggenheim says. “How the captain of a ship could crash into one of the most remote archipelagoes of the world far away from shipping lanes is a mystery to me.”
Rocky Kistner: A World Away From the Gulf, Penguins Fight Oil Too Rocky Kistner 2011
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During this week only, Mr. Matthiessen will help guide participants on trips through locations like the Chonos and Guaitecas archipelagoes and Laguna San Rafael National Park.
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There still are plenty of questions about how the ship ended up here, Guggenheim says. “How the captain of a ship could crash into one of the most remote archipelagoes of the world far away from shipping lanes is a mystery to me.”
Rocky Kistner: A World Away From the Gulf, Penguins Fight Oil Too Rocky Kistner 2011
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It includes the archipelagoes of Revillagigedo and Galapagos and the islands of Clipperton, Cocos, Coiba, Gorgona and Malpelo off Columbia.
Coiba National Park and its Special Zone of Marine Protection, Panama 2009
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On the current charts of the South Pacific there are marked several archipelagoes and islands, the position of which is not a little doubtful.
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When the lake level rose, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the hills became islands, ranges of hills became archipelagoes, and the process of speciation took off among the cichlids that live in shallow water, known locally as Mbuna.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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