Monday 11 August 2014

Archipelago

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This article is about island chains. For different utilization, see Archipelago (disambiguation).

The Mergui Archipelago in Burma (Myanmar).

The Ksamil Archipelago in Albania.

The archipelago of Fernando de Noronha in Brazil.

An archipelago (Listeni/ɑrkɨˈpɛləɡoʊ/ ark-i-PEL-ə-goh), once in a while called an island gathering or island chain, is a chain, bunch or accumulation of islands. The statement archipelago is inferred from the Greek ἄρχι- – arkhi- ("boss") and πέλαγος – pélagos ("ocean") through the Italian arcipelago. In Italian, perhaps after a convention of days of yore, the Arcipelago (from medieval Greek *ἀρχιπέλαγος) was the correct name for the Aegean Sea and, later, utilization moved to allude to the Aegean Islands (since the ocean is noteworthy for its vast number of islands). It is presently used to allude to any island gathering or, off and on again, to an ocean holding a substantial number of scattered islands.

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