1. archipelago - Noun
2. archipelago - Verb
The Grecian Archipelago, or Aegean Sea, separating Greece from Asia Minor. 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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily. Aravind Adiga
Because we have not understood that wholes are more than the sum of their parts, we have assembled our information into islands, an archipelago of disconnected data. Our great institutions have evolved in virtual isolation from one another. Marilyn Ferguson
According to SIF, Aldabra was selected because it is an important habitat for the only known remaining population of dugongs in the Seychelles archipelago, and it forms part of the breeding grounds and migratory corridor for humpback whales in the region. Source: Internet
All migrants have been relocated to makeshift military facilities with better infrastructure and hotels across Gran Canaria and other islands, Anselmo Pestana, the Spanish government delegate in the archipelago, told reporters on Monday. Source: Internet
A long chain of mountains runs down the middle of the archipelago, dividing it into two halves, the "face", fronting on the Pacific Ocean, and the "back", toward the Sea of Japan. Source: Internet
Entertainers from the Philippines have been performing across Asia for decades, and are known for playing Western pop music, a legacy of both the American occupation of the archipelago from 1898 to 1946 and the global reach of record players. Source: Internet