island chain
Noun
Meaning
island chain (plural island chains)
An archipelago consisting of neighboring islands which are roughly aligned, as if chained one to the next.
Several island chains are named 'Keys' in English
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A local Mariana Islands newspaper recently the Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands regarding an Air Force divert airport planned for Tinian, a part of the Northern Mariana island chain, saying, “it’s happening.”
And so long as Washington retains a strong military position along the first island chain, regional powers—from Vietnam to Taiwan to Japan—will try to resist China’s rise rather than accommodate it.
Opportunity Adaptive radiations often occur as a result of an organism arising in an environment with unoccupied niches, such as a newly formed lake or isolated island chain.
His prey never reappeared, and the following night he received an intelligence report directing him to the shipping lanes around the Talaud island chain 550 miles to the north.
And the U.S. Government has repeated its defense obligation to protect the so-called Japanese administration over an island chain in the East China Sea, although its official stand is not to take a position on its sovereignty.
This island chain was created by the colliding Pacific and Philippine Sea tectonic plates.