Yes, the Hawaiian Islands are properly called an Archipelago.
There is only one state of the US that is in the Pacific Ocean, and that would be Hawaii.
The Hawaiian Islands (Hawaii) are an archipelago.
Hawaii
Hawaii is an island archipelago.
well it is because an archipelago means, "small islands". Philippines has small islands. Spaniards began to call it as archipelago.
A group of islands is known as an archipelago.
An archipelago is simply a chain of islands. Hawaii would qualify as one.
An "archipelago".
The state of Hawaii consists of an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. There are four large islands in the Japanese archipelago.
Hawaii is one of the islands of Hawaiian archipelago which - as a whole - is a state of the USA.
A chain or cluster of islands is called an archipelago.
It is both : the "big island" is named Hawaii, and the entire chain is the state of Hawaii, or "the Hawaiian Islands".