Archipelago
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#Archipelagoes
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#Oceanographical_terminology
The Aegean Sea with its large number of islands is the origin of the term archipelago.
The Mergui Archipelago in Myanmar An archipelago （/ˌɑːrkiˈpɛləɡoʊ/ （listen） ARK-i-PEL-ə-goh）, sometimes called an island group or island chain,
is a chain, cluster or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.
Examples of archipelagos include: the Indonesian Archipelago, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the Lakshadweep Islands, the Galápagos Islands, the Japanese Archipelago, the Philippine Archipelago, the Maldives, the Balearic Isles,
the Bahamas, the Aegean Islands, the Hawaiian Islands, the Canary Islands, Malta, the Azores, the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the British Isles, the islands of the Archipelago Sea, and Shetland.
They are sometimes defined by political boundaries.
The Gulf archipelago off the north-eastern Pacific coast forms part of a larger archipelago that geographically includes Washington state's San Juan Islands.
While the Gulf archipelago and San Juan Islands are geographically related, they are not technically included in the same archipelago due to manmade geopolitical borders.
The word archipelago is derived from the Ancient Greek ἄρχι-（arkhi-, "chief"） and πέλαγος （pélagos, "sea"） through the Italian arcipelago.
In antiquity, "Archipelago" （from medieval Greek *ἀρχιπέλαγος and Latin archipelagus） was the proper name for the Aegean Sea.
Later, usage shifted to refer to the Aegean Islands （since the sea has a large number of islands）.
Archipelagos may be found isolated in large amounts of water or neighbouring a large land mass.
For example, Scotland has more than 700 islands surrounding its mainland which form an archipelago.
Archipelagos are often volcanic, forming along island arcs generated by subduction zones or hotspots, but may also be the result of...