Archipelagoes Archipelagoes The Admiralty Islands are a group of 18 islands in the Bismarck Archipelago. These are also sometimes called the Manus Islands, named after the largest island. The islands form part of Manus Province of Papua New Guinea. The total area is 2100 km². ...more on Wikipedia about "Admiralty Islands"
The Åland Islands, or Landskapet Åland in Swedish, or Ahvenanmaan maakunta/Ahvenanmaa in Finnish, are an autonomous, demilitarised, monolingually Swedish-speaking administrative province of Finland. (Åland is pronounced / /or / / in English.) The Åland Islands consist of a Main Island, Fasta Åland, with 90% of the population and east thereof an archipelago of more than 6,500 skerries and islands at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia. Fasta Åland is separated by open water from the coast of Sweden, 40 km to the west. In the east, the Åland archipelago is virtually contiguous with the Finnish Archipelago Sea. ...more on Wikipedia about "Åland"
The Aleutian Islands (possibly from Chukchi aliat, " island") are a chain of more than 300 small volcanic islands forming an island arc situated in the Northern Pacific Ocean, occupying an area of 6,821 sq mi (17,666 sq km) and extending about 1,200 mi (1,900 km) westward from the Alaska Peninsula toward the Kamchatka Peninsula. Crossing longitude 180°, they are the westernmost part of the United States (and technically also the easternmost; see Extreme points of the United States). Nearly all of the archipelago is part of Alaska and usually considered as being in the " Alaskan Bush", but the extreme western end is in Russia. The islands with their 57 volcanoes are located in the northern part of the Pacific Ring of Fire. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aleutian Islands"
The Alexander Archipelago is an archipelago, or group of islands, off the southeast coast of Alaska. The islands are the tops of the submerged coastal mountains that rise steeply from the Pacific Ocean. Deep channels separate the islands and cut them off from the mainland. The northern part of the Inside Passage winds its way among the islands. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander Archipelago"
The Andaman Islands are a group of islands in the Bay of Bengal, and are part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Union Territory of India. Port Blair is the chief community on the islands, and the administrative center of the Union Territory. The Andaman Islands form a single administrative district within the Union Territory, the Andaman district (the Nicobar district was separated and established as a new district in 1974). The population of the Andamans was 314,084 in 2001. ...more on Wikipedia about "Andaman Islands"
The Andreanof Islands are a group of islands in the Aleutian Islands in southwest Alaska between the Rat Islands group, to the west and the Fox Islands group, to the east, at about 52° North and 172°57' to 179°09' West. The islands extend about 440 km (275 miles). ...more on Wikipedia about "Andreanof Islands"
The Antilles now generally refers to the islands of the Caribbean except the Bahamas. A distinction is made between the " Greater Antilles" on the north of the sea, including Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola ( Haiti and Dominican Republic), and Puerto Rico; and the " Lesser Antilles" on the east, forming the Leeward Islands, the Windward Islands, and the Venezuelan Islands—the Leeward as far as Dominica, the Windward as far as Trinidad, and the Venezuelan along the coast of South America. Because of their linguistic similarities with Spanish-speaking nations, Cuba, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico are also considered part of Latin America. Geographically speaking the Antilles are part of North America. ...more on Wikipedia about "Antilles"
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Anzhu Islands (Острова Анжу in Russian) are the biggest islands in a group of the New Siberian Islands. They include the Kotelny Island, Faddeyevsky Island, Novaya Sibir, and Belkovsky Island. Area: approx. 29,000 sq km. The Anzhu Islands are named after a Russian explorer Pyotr Anzhu. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anzhu Islands"
An archipelago is a landform which consists of a chain or cluster of islands. Archipelagoes usually occur in the open sea; less commonly a large land mass may neighbour them. Archipelagoes are often volcanic, forming along ocean ridges or hotspots, but there are many other processes involved in their construction, including erosion and deposition. ...more on Wikipedia about "Archipelago"
The Austral Islands ( French: Îles Australes or Archipel des Australes) are the southernmost group of islands in French Polynesia, sometimes also called the "Tubuai Islands", after one of the main islands. They progress from the uninhabited Îles Maria ( ) in the northwest to the small island of Marotiri ( ) in the southeast. Several of the islands have uninhabited small islets or rocks off their coastlines. The main islands, from northwest to southeast are, Îles Maria, Rimatara ( ), Rurutu ( ), Tubuai ( ), Raevavae or Raivavae ( ), Rapa ( ) and Marotiri, of which Îles Maria and Marotiri are uninhabited (and not capable of sustaining permanent habitation). ...more on Wikipedia about "Austral Islands"
The Barlavento archipelago (literally, the Windward), is the northern island group of Cape Verde. ...more on Wikipedia about "Barlavento"
The Bazaruto Archipelago is a group of islands in Mozambique, near the mainland city of Vilankulo. It comprises the islands of Bazaruto, Benguerra, Magaruque, Banque and Santa Carolina. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bazaruto Archipelago"
The Belcher Islands are an archipelago in Hudson Bay in Canada, belonging to the territory of Nunavut. The hamlet of Sanikiluaq is on the north coast of Flaherty Island and is the southernmost in Nunavut. Other major islands in the 1,500 islands in the archipelago are Kugong Island, Moore Island, Tukarak Island, Innetallong Island, Wiegand Island, Split Island, Snape Island and Mavor Island. ...more on Wikipedia about "Belcher Islands"
Biscoe Islands is a chain of islands, of which the principal ones are Renaud, Rabot, Lavoisier and Watkins, lying parallel to the W coast of Graham Land and extending 80 miles in a NE-SW direction. Named for John Biscoe, leader of a British expedition which explored the islands on February 17 and 18, 1832. ...more on Wikipedia about "Biscoe Islands"
The Bismarck Archipelago is a group of islands off the coast of New Guinea in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, named in honour of the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck and belonging to Papua New Guinea. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bismarck Archipelago"
The Bissagos Islands or Bijagós Archipelago are a group of some eighteen major islands and dozens more smaller ones in the Atlantic Ocean. They are a part of Guinea-Bissau. In pre-colonial times the islands were central to the trade along the coast of West Africa and they built up a powerful navy. In 1535 this enabled them to rout the Portuguese when they attempted to conquer the islands. The islands were not taken by Portugal until 1936. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bissagos Islands"
The Canadian Arctic islands make up most of the territory of Nunavut and part of the Northwest Territories. The islands form the northernmost region of North America, but are a remote wilderness far removed from the populated areas of the continent. Ellesmere Island, Victoria Island, and Baffin Island are three of the largest islands in the world. ...more on Wikipedia about "Canadian Arctic islands"
The Canton and Enderbury Islands are the coral atolls of Canton (now Kanton) and Enderbury in the Phoenix Islands, about 1,850 miles (3,000 km) south of Hawaii in the central Pacific Ocean. The islands were important naval and air bases on the way between the Americas and the Philippines and Australia and were claimed by both the United Kingdom and the United States of America. From 1939 to 1979 they formed a British–American condominium. Afterwards they formed part of the new country of Kiribati. ...more on Wikipedia about "Canton and Enderbury Islands"
The Caroline Islands form a large archipelago of widely scattered islands in the western Pacific Ocean, northeast of New Guinea. Politically they presently sub-divide into the Federated States of Micronesia in the eastern part of the group, and Palau at the extreme western end. Most of the islands comprise low, flat coral atolls, but some rise high above sea level. The inhabitants speak a variety of Micronesian languages including Yapese, Pohnpeian, Chuukese, and Kosraean, as well as the Western Malayo-Polynesian language Palauan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Caroline Islands"
The Carteret Islands (also known as Tulun or Kilinailau Islands/Atoll), Tulun, Jangaini, Yecola, Yava and Puli are part of Papua New Guinea located 62 miles northeast of Bougainville in the South Pacific at 4°45'S, 155°24'E. The islands are a scattering of low lying atolls in a horseshoe shape stretching around 30 kilometers in north-south direction, named after the British navigator Philip Carteret who discovered them in the sloop Swallow in 1767. As of 2005 about one thousand people live on the islands. Tulun is the most significant island with partial (but rapidly dying due to saltwater introgression) tree cover, the others being small islets in the lagoon. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carteret Islands"
The Chagos Archipelago is a group of six atolls with more than 600 individual tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, that lies about 500 km (300 miles) due south of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean, and 1600 km (1000 miles) southwest of India, halfway between Africa and Indonesia. They are part of the British Indian Ocean Territory ...more on Wikipedia about "Chagos Archipelago"
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The Channel Islands are a group of islands off the coast of Normandy, France, in the English Channel. They comprise two separate bailiwicks: the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Bailiwick of Jersey. ...more on Wikipedia about "Channel Islands"
The Channel Islands of California, also called the Santa Barbara Islands, are a chain of eight islands located in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California along the Santa Barbara Channel in the United States of America. ...more on Wikipedia about "Channel Islands of California"
The Chinijo archipelago is an archipelago located in the northeastern part of the Canary Islands. The archipelago includes the islands of Montaña Clara, Alegranza, Graciosa, Roque del Este, Roque del Oeste and various islands of volcanic origin. The archipelago is forehead of the Western Sahara (until 1983, Spanish Sahara). ...more on Wikipedia about "Chinijo Archipelago"
Chonos Archipelago ( Spanish Archipelago de los Chonos) is a series of low mountainous elongated islands with deep bays are traces of a drowned coastal range. Most of the islands are forested with little or no human settlement. The deep Moraleda Channel separates the islands of the Chonos Archipelago from the mainland of Chile. They are part of the Region XI Aysen ...more on Wikipedia about "Chonos Archipelago"
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