archipelago

English - Turkish

Definition of archipelago in English Turkish dictionary

{i} takımada

Japon takımadaları korkunç bir sıcak hava dalgası ile vuruldu. - The Japanese archipelago is struck by a terrible heat wave.

takımadalar bölgesi

takımadalar

Japon takımadaları korkunç bir sıcak hava dalgası ile vuruldu. - The Japanese archipelago is struck by a terrible heat wave.

aral

adalar

üzerinde irili ufaklı çok sayıda ada bulunan deniz

ege denizi

{i} içinde çok ada olan deniz

adalar denizi

takımadalar adalar grubu

Related Terms

the archipelago

ege denizi

archipelagos

(Hukuk) takımadalar

the Archipelago

Adalar Denizi

English - English

Definition of archipelago in English English dictionary

Something scattered around like an archipelago

The Gulag Archipelago.

A group of islands

any large body of water studded with islands, or the islands collectively themselves

{i} group of small islands, chain of islands; body of water containing many islands

(är' k pel' g') A group or chain of oceanic islands

A group of islands or a sea studded with islands

a group of islands scattered in a sea Japan is an archipelago made up of more than 6,800 islands Bakufu- the military government of feudal Japan Also known as a shogunate

A group of many islands in a sea or in an ocean

A large group of islands

It is studded with a vast number of small islands

Hence: Any sea or broad sheet of water interspersed with many islands or with a group of islands

a cluster of islands, including the waters that surround them

A group of islands close together in an ocean or sea The Philippine Islands are an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean

An archipelago is a group of islands, especially small islands. archipelagos a group of small islands. Alexander Archipelago Arctic Archipelago Bismarck Archipelago Chagos Archipelago Louisiade Archipelago Malay Archipelago Mergui Archipelago Sulu Archipelago Tuamotu Archipelago

a group of many islands in a large body of water

An archipelago is a group or chain of islands clustered together in a sea or ocean atoll An atoll is a ring (or partial ring) of coral that forms an island in an ocean or sea bay A bay is a body of water that is partly enclosed by land (usually smaller than a gulf) canyon A canyon is a deep valley with very steep sides - often carved from the Earth by a river

An archipelago is a group or chain of islands clustered together in a sea or ocean

large group of islands

Related Terms

Arctic Archipelago

A group of more than 50 large islands of northern Canada in the Arctic Ocean between North America and Greenland. Group of Canadian islands, Arctic Ocean. They lie north of the Canadian mainland and have an area of about 550,000 sq mi (1,424,500 sq km). The southeastern islands are an extension of the Canadian Shield; the balance consists of the Arctic lowlands to the south and the Innuitian Mountains to the north. The archipelago includes the large islands of Baffin, Ellesmere, Victoria, Banks, and Prince of Wales

arctic archipelago

all the islands that lie north of mainland Canada and the Arctic Circle

Alexander Archipelago

A group of more than 1,000 islands off southeast Alaska. The rugged, heavily forested islands are the exposed tops of submerged coastal mountains that rise steeply from the Pacific Ocean. Group of about 1,100 islands, southeastern Alaska, U.S. Extending southward from Glacier Bay, the chief islands are Chichagof, Admiralty, Baranof, Kupreanof, Prince of Wales, and Revillagigedo. The chief towns are Sitka (on Baranof) and Ketchikan (on Revillagigedo). The islands are separated from the mainland by deep, narrow channels that form part of the Inside Passage. The archipelago's name, given in 1867, honours Tsar Alexander II

Bismarck Archipelago

A group of volcanic islands and islets of Papua New Guinea in the southwest Pacific Ocean. The islands were discovered by Dutch explorers in the early 1700s. Island group, western Pacific Ocean. Lying northwest of New Guinea, it forms part of Papua New Guinea. It has a total area of 19,173 sq mi (49,658 sq km); its largest components include New Britain, New Ireland, the Admiralty Islands, and New Hanover (Lavongai). Annexed by Germany in 1884, it was named for Otto von Bismarck. Occupied by Australia in 1914, it was made a mandated territory of Australia in 1920. The group became part of the UN Trust Territory of New Guinea after World War II and part of Papua New Guinea when it attained independence in 1975

Chagos Archipelago

Island group, central Indian Ocean. Located about 1,000 mi (1,600 km) south of the tip of the Indian subcontinent, it has a total area of 23 sq mi (60 sq km). Acquired by Britain from France in 1814, it was originally administered by Britain as a dependency of Mauritius; since 1976 it has been the sole member of the British Indian Ocean Territory. Strategically situated at the centre of the Indian Ocean, its chief island, Diego Garcia, was developed as an air and naval refueling station by the U.S. and Great Britain in the mid 20th century, over the strong opposition from the region's coastal and island states

Louisiade Archipelago

Island group, Papua New Guinea, southeast of New Guinea. Stretching for more than 100 mi (160 km), it occupies 10,000 sq mi (26,000 sq km) of the South Pacific Ocean. It has nearly 100 islands; the largest are Misima, Tagula, and Rossel. It was visited by the Spanish in 1606 and was named after Louis XV of France in 1768. Occupied by Japanese forces in 1942, the islands are near the site of the Battle of the Coral Sea

Malay Archipelago

{i} group of islands of southeast Asia (includes the islands of Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia)

Malay Archipelago

An island group of southeast Asia between Australia and the Asian mainland and separating the Indian and Pacific oceans. It includes Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia. Largest group of islands in the world, located off the southeastern coast of Asia between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of the more than 13,000 islands of Indonesia and some 7,000 islands of the Philippines. Formerly called the East Indies, the archipelago extends along the Equator for more than 3,800 mi (6,100 km). Principal islands include the Greater Sunda Islands (Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Celebes), the Lesser Sundas, the Moluccas, New Guinea, Luzon, Mindanao, and the Visayan Islands

Mergui Archipelago

Group of more than 200 islands in the Andaman Sea off the coast of southeastern Myanmar. The largest island is Mali Kyun (Tavoy Island) at its northern end. Other major islands in the group include Kadan (King), Thayawthadangyi (Elphinstone), Daung (Ross), Saganthit (Sellore), Bentinck, Letsok-aw (Domel), Kanmaw (Kisseraing), Lanbi (Sullivan's), and Zadetkyi (St. Matthew's). Mountainous and jungle-covered, the islands are inhabited chiefly by the Selungs

Palmer Archipelago

An island group between the southern tip of South America and the northwest coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The islands are claimed by Great Britain

Sulu Archipelago

Volcanic and coral archipelago, southwestern Philippines, between Mindanao and Borneo. A double island chain, it extends 170 mi (270 km) and includes about 400 named islands and more than 500 unnamed ones; they cover an area of 1,038 sq mi (2,688 sq km). The islanders were converted to Islam by Abu Bakr in the mid-15th century. The Spanish tried, at first unsuccessfully, to subdue the inhabitants, whom they called Moros. The islands finally became a Spanish protectorate in the 19th century, and in 1899 came under U.S. authority. The archipelago was ceded to the Philippines in 1940. The islands provide a haven for smugglers and pirates

Tuamotu Archipelago

Group of about 80 islands (pop., 1996: 14,283), French Polynesia. The archipelago comprises 75 atolls, one raised coral atoll (Makatea), and innumerable coral reefs, roughly dispersed northwest-southeast as a double chain for over 900 miles (1,450 km). Europeans visited the islands in the 16th-17th centuries. France occupied them in 1844 and annexed them in 1880 as a Tahitian dependency. They now form, with the Gambier Islands, an administrative division of French Polynesia. In 1947 Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki expedition ended on Raroia one of Tuamotu's many reefs. France has used some uninhabited atolls in the archipelago for nuclear testing

alexander archipelago

a group of islands off southeastern Alaska

archipelagoes

plural of archipelago

archipelagos

plural of archipelago

bismarck archipelago

a group of islands in the southwestern Pacific northeast of New Guinea; part of Papua New Guinea

malay archipelago

a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia

tuamotu archipelago

a group of about 80 coral islands in French Polynesia

Hyphenation

ar·chi·pel·a·go

Turkish pronunciation

ärkıpelıgō

Pronunciation

/ˌärkəˈpeləˌgō/ /ˌɑːrkəˈpɛləˌɡoʊ/

Etymology

() From Italian arcipelago (“Aegean Sea”) Ancient Greek ἀρχι- (archi, “leading”) + πέλαγος (pelagos, “sea”).