0 a group of small islands or an area of sea in which there are many small islands:
the Hawaiian archipelago
1 a group of islands, or an area of sea where there are many islands:
Nested subsets and the structure of insular mammalian faunas and archipelagos.
Most of the book, however, is concerned with describing the plants and animals of the archipelago.
However, these are the first sightings on the northern coast of the archipelago.
For more than one island (the 'archipelago problem '), extended techniques are available from potential theory.
The result is neighborhoodization in a rural archipelago.
Every archipelago contains only finitely many islands with a vertex.
By measures legislative and fiscal, the welfare state had become an ideological archipelago, increasingly isolated from the mainland of domestic policy.
In particular, the family associated to a full island in a given archipelago realizes all possible quasi-conjugation classes.