archipelago

(noun)

A group of islands.

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Examples of archipelago in the following topics:

  • Ceramics and Bronze in the Yayoi Period

    • Chinese expansion under the Qin (221-206 BCE) and Han (206-220 CE) Dynasties is said to have been one of the primary impetuses for migrations to the Japanese archipelago.
    • Discuss how Chinese expansion under the Qin and Han Dynasties contributed to the migrations to the Japanese archipelago during the Yayoi period.

  • Tonga

    • The Kingdom of Tonga is a sovereign state and an archipelago comprising 176 islands scattered over 700,000 square kilometres (270,000 sq mi) of the southern Pacific Ocean.
    • The Tongan archipelago has been inhabited for perhaps 3000 years, since settlement in late Lapita times.
    • Tongan craftsmen were skilled at inlaying pearl-shell and ivory in wood, and Tongan war clubs were treasured items in the neighboring archipelago of Fiji .

  • Charles Darwin and Natural Selection

    • Wallace traveled to Brazil to collect insects in the Amazon rainforest from 1848 to 1852 and to the Malay Archipelago from 1854 to 1862.
    • Darwin's journey, as with Wallace's later journeys to the Malay Archipelago, included stops at several island chains, the last being the Galápagos Islands west of Ecuador.
    • For example, Darwin observed that a population of giant tortoises found in the Galapagos Archipelago have longer necks than those that lived on other islands with dry lowlands.

  • The Java Culture

    • Due to various migrations, it can also be found in other parts of the world, such as Suriname (where 15% of the population are of Javanese descent), the broader Indonesian archipelago region, Cape Malay, Malaysia, Singapore, Netherlands, and other countries.
    • Silat is a class of indigenous martial arts from the area of Southeast Asia encompassing most of the Nusantara, the Indonesian Archipelago, the Malay Archipelago, and the entirety of the Malay Peninsula.

  • New Britain

    • New Britain is the largest island of the Bismark Archipelago of Papau New Guinea.

  • Wood Carving in the Caroline Islands

    • The Caroline Islands are a widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea.
    • Dilukai are wooden figures of young women carved over the doorways of chiefs' houses (known as bai) in the Palauan archipelago.

  • Territory and Reparations

    • German Samoa was assigned to New Zealand; German New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and Nauru were assigned to Australia.

  • Natural Selection and Adaptive Evolution

    • Two hundred years after Charles Darwin set foot on the shores of the Galápagos Islands, David Attenborough travels to this wild and mysterious archipelago.

  • Pre-European Hawaiian Art

    • The Hawaiian archipelago consists of 137 islands in the Pacific Ocean that are far from any other land.

  • Non-Native Hawaiian Art

    • The Hawaiian archipelago consists of 137 islands in the Pacific Ocean that are far from any other land.