They are small birds. There is also a group of islands called the Canary Islands, sometimes just referred to as the Canaries.
The words for a group of islands may be a chain or an archipelago.
A group of small islands
A small archipelago or group of islands.
The Aleutian Islands are part of Alaska.
ocean
Maldives
No Pakistan is an inland country on the continent of Asia.
That was the 'Polynesians'.
sri lanka
These are known as the Torres Strait islands.
a group of small coral islands in the shape of a ring that encloses a lagoon