Archipelago ( Greek Αρχιπέλαγος ) - a group of islands located close to each other. As a rule, islands in the archipelago have the same origin ( mainland , volcanic , coral ) and a similar geological structure.
Content
- 1 Etymology
- 2 Largest Archipelagos
- 3 See also
- 4 notes
- 5 Links
Etymology
The word "archipelago" ( Greek: ἄρχιπέλαγος - "main sea") arose from ἄρχι- - the main and πέλαγος - the sea. Initially, the Venetians called the Aegean Sea [1] and the Greek Archipelago , that is, the islands of the Aegean Sea, the Venetians in the 13th century as the Archipelago ( Italian: Arcipelago ).
Largest Archipelagos
South Shetland Islands - a group of Antarctic islands
Kerguelen archipelago - one large island and many small
New Earth - two large islands and several small
- Azores
- Åland Islands
- Alexandra Archipelago
- Amiranta Islands
- Antilles
- Nordenscheld Archipelago
- Archipelago sea
- Bismarck Archipelago
- British Isles
- Hawaiian Islands
- Hebrides
- Greek archipelago
- Cape Verde Islands
- Franz Josef Land
- Sunda Islands
- Canadian Arctic Archipelago
- Canary Islands
- Carolina Islands
- Kerguelen
- Korean archipelago
- Kurile Islands
- Malay archipelago
- Moonsund Archipelago
- New Zealand
- New earth
- Novosibirsk islands
- Channel Islands
- Tierra del Fuego
- Orkney Islands
- Parry archipelago
- North Land
- Solovetsky Islands
- Solomon islands
- Faroe islands
- Falkland Islands
- Chilean archipelago
- Shantar Islands
- Svalbard
- South Shetland Islands
- Japanese islands .
See also
- Gulag Archipelago
- Archipelago expeditions of the Russian fleet
- The Aegean Sea in Russian sources until the XX century was called the Archipelago
Notes
- ↑ Archipelago // Ankylosis - Bank [Electronic resource]. - 2005. - S. 331. - (The Big Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 vols.] / Ch. Ed. Yu. S. Osipov ; 2004—2017, vol. 2). - ISBN 5-85270-330-3 .
Links
- Archipelago // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.