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sometimes a group of islands is called an archipelago.
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What geographical term best describes Crete?
Crete is an island, which is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands.
What is a large chain of islands?
An archipelago is a large chain of islands.
What is the name given to a chain of islands?
The name given to a chain of islands is an archipelago.
What do you call a chain or cluster of islands?
A chain or cluster of islands is called an archipelago.
Chains of islands are referred to as?
An archipelago is a chain of islands
The Bahamas are a chain of islands otherwise known as what type of geographical feature?
Cape
What land form is Japan?
Japan is a chain of islands, which is also known in geographical terms as an archipelago.
What type of landform are Florida keys?
In the geographical sense, a key is an archipellago, which is to say, a chain of islands.
How did the British isles get its isles?
British Isles is the geographical term for the islands of Britain and Ireland and all of their offshore islands. It has nothing to do with the political split of these islands.
What include the British isles?
The British Isles used to be a geographical term referring to the Islands of Britain and Ireland. It is no longer used as the correct geographical term is now Britain and Ireland.
What is the name given to a long string of islands such as Alaska's Aleutian Islands?
The general term is "island chain." The term for any group of related islands is "archipelago."
When one uses the term leeward what are they referring to?
Leeward is a term which refers to a group of islands. They are northern islands in the Lesser Antilles Chain. This refers to their geography in location.
What is the collective noun for a string of islands?
The collective nouns for islands are aconstellation, string, group, cluster, or a chain of islands.The term "archipelago" refers to a group of islands in the one location, under a common name. A different term is "island chain" where a long group of islands projects into the sea, typically from a peninsula.
What are the chain of islands off Alaska's Peninsula?
The chain of islands is the = Aleutian Islands =
Chain of islands in an ocean?
A chain of islands is called an archipelago.
What geographical feature is the Bahamas?
They are islands.
What is is a chain of islands in the south pacific?
The solomon Islands is one such chain.
