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4 unusual facts about Archipelago


After Man: A Zoology of the Future

Other volcanic islands have been added, such as the Pacaus Archipelago and Batavia.

Christopher W. Baker

He played the part of an artist and painting tutor in Joanna Hogg's film Archipelago, shot on Tresco, Isles of Scilly in 2009.

Omora Sub-Antarctic Research Alliance

The Omora Sub-Antarctic Research Alliance (OSARA) is a U.S.-based non-profit, charitable organization dedicated to "exploring the biocultural wonders of the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago".

Vijoy S Sahay

After having secured First position in First Class in both, B.A. (Honors) and M. A. in Anthropology, Professor Sahay was awarded doctoral degree in Anthropology from Ranchi University, Ranchi in 1979 for his research work in the Nicobar Archipelago.


Alor Archipelago

Administratively, the Alor archipelago forms its own regency (Indonesian: kabupaten) within the province of East Nusa Tenggara.

Archipelago Brewery

The Archipelago Brewery was established in 1931 and became the first commercial brewery in Singapore, started by Becks.

Banggai Island

Banggai Island is the second largest of the Banggai Islands, an archipelago located at the far eastern end of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Barents

Barentsburg, second largest settlement in the Svalbard archipelago

Benzelius family

Henrik Jacobsson was born on the island of Hindersön in the archipelago of Luleå, where he was until 1629 a farmer before he moved to Bensbyn, through either marriage or inheritance.

Blue-crowned Lorikeet

The Blue-crowned Lorikeet (Vini australis) is a parrot found throughout the Samoa and Tonga islands and Lau archipelago, including: ʻAlofi, Fotuhaʻa, Fulago, Futuna, Haʻafeva, Niuafoʻou, Moce, Niuē, Ofu, Olosega, Sāmoa, Savaiʻi, Tafahi, Taʻu, Tofua, Tonga, Tungua, ʻUiha, ʻUpolu, Varoa, Vavaʻu, and Voleva.

Chichagov

Chichagof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of the Alaskan Panhandle

Dagny Tande Lid

She is also represented in several of the popular papers and books by Danish-Canadian botanist Erling Porsild, including Edible plants of the Arctic (1953), Illustrated Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (1957), and Rocky Mountain wild flowers (1974).

David Jno Baptiste aka Ras Jumbo

As early as the 1970s, he was involved in bands on the island playing French Creole music that originated in the archipelago formed from Guadeloupe to Martinique.

Desmarest's hutia

They are found on the main island, Isla de la Juventud, the Sabana archipelago, the Doce Laqunas archipelago and many of the other islands and cays of the Cuban archipelago.

Dhadimagi Kilhi

Among the birds which inhabit the place apart from the Common Moorhen which is a bird exclusively found in Fuvahmulah only in the Maldivian archipelago, Maldivian White-breasted Waterhen (Amaurornis phoenicurus maldivus) which is an endemic species of the Maldives too can be sighted by the lakeside.

Discovery Island

Discovery Islands, an archipelago near Campbell River, British Columbia.

Erdağ Göknar

In 2008 Göknar translated famous modernist Turkish author Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's iconic novel A Mind at Peace (Archipelago, 2008), which was supported by a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Fiji Ground Frog

The Fiji ground frog is found on four larger islands (Taveuni, Vanua Levu, Ovalau, and Gau) and a small island, Viwa, (0.6 ha) off the eastern coast of the main island (Viti Levu) of the Fiji archipelago.

George Biddlecombe

When attached to the Talbot, 1838–42, he surveyed numerous anchorages on the Ionian station, in the Archipelago, and up the Dardanelles and Bosphorus; examined the south shore of the Black Sea as far as Trabzon, as well as the port of Varna, and prepared a survey, published by the admiralty, of the bays and banks of Akko.

Greater Antilles

The other island group in the archipelago is the Lesser Antilles, a chain of islands to the east (running north-south and encompassing the eastern edge of the Caribbean Sea where it meets the Atlantic Ocean) and south (running east-west off the northern coast of South America).

Hanko

The Battle of Gangut between Swedish and Russian navies was fought in 1714 in the archipelago north of the peninsula.

Invasion of Hvaler

The invasion of Hvaler, was a Swedish military invasion of the Norwegian archipelago during the Swedish-Norwegian War of 1814.

Jigsaw

Jigsaw Islands, a two small islands lying off the southwest end of Wiencke Island, in the Palmer Archipelago

Johan Alfred Ander

Ander was subsequently arrested during nighttime near Vaxholm, in his father's house, after some inquiries to workers on the archipelago ferries, who recognized Ander and remembered where he went.

Jolo

Known as the Bates treaty, the agreement provided for the exercise of American authority over the Sulu archipelago in exchange for the recognition of Muslim culture and religion.

José do Canto

On his properties, near and around Ponta Delgada and Furnas, he would acclimatize and seed several plant species, including the Camellia and Cryptomeria, today both found throughout the archipelago.

Jost Van Dyke

At roughly 8 square kilometers, and about 3 square miles Jost Van Dyke is the smallest of the four main islands of the British Virgin Islands, the northern portion of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands, located in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea.

Khong Island

Khong Island or Don Khong is the largest island and the seat of administration in the Si Phan Don riverine archipelago located in the Mekong River, Khong District, Champasak Province, southern Laos.

Labrisomus conditus

Labrisomus conditus, the Masquerader hairy blenny, is a species of labrisomid blenny native to the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, off northeastern Brazil, and from Florida, USA, in the Atlantic Ocean.

Liburnians

In light of this strategy, he established a few Syracusan colonies on the coasts of the Adriatic Sea: Adria at the mouth of Po river and Ancona at the western Adriatic coast, Issa on the outermost island of the central Adriatic archipelago (island of Vis) and others.

Mu Ko Chang National Park

The most notable island within the archipelago is Ko Chang.

Nicobar Sparrowhawk

There are two subspecies, the nominate race which is found on Car Nicobar in the north of the archipelago, and A.

Ny-Ålesund

Ny-Ålesund ("New Ålesund") is one of the four permanent settlements on the island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago.

Pico da Vara

Pico da Vara is the highest mountain on the Portuguese island of São Miguel, in the Azores archipelago of Macaronesia in the Atlantic Ocean.

Ptolemy's world map

The most prominent feature of the map is the peninsula Jutland placed north of the river Albis Trêva, west of the Saxonôn Nesôi (archipelago), east of the Skandiai Nêsoi, which itself lies west of a larger island Skandia.

North of Jutland lies a third archipelago Alokiai Nêsoi.

Ranon

Rånön, an island in the northwest of the Swedish sector of the Bay of Bothnia, in the Kalix archipelago

Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, Fontana

The Sacred Heart of Jesus Church is in Fontana, Gozo Island, part of the Maltese Archipelago.

Sept Îles

Sept Îles, also known as Jentilez, a small French archipelago off the north coast of Brittany and an important birds reserve

States of Brazil

In 1943, with the entrance of Brazil into the Second World War, the Vargas regime detached seven strategic territories from the border of the country in order to administer them directly: Amapá, Rio Branco, Acre, Guaporé, Ponta Porã, Iguaçu and the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha.

Sulu Archipelago

In the second half of the 18th century, Great Britain became a new player in the archipelago After occupying Manila from 1762 – 64, during the Thirty years war between Spain and Great Britain, the British Army withdrew to the south and established trading alliances between the Sulu Sultanate and the British East India Company.

Taro Revolt

The taro (Colocasia esculenta), referred to in the Azores as inhames or coco in Portuguese, is cultivated in many islands of the archipelago.

Tawi-Tawi

A sea connection to other parts of the Filipino archipelago as well as an international route to Semporna, Malaysia also available from Bongao.

The Dragon's Apprentice

John, Jack, Fred the Badger, the Tin Man (Roger Bacon), Laura Glue, Richard Burton, Harry Houdini, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the mysterious End of Time, a friend of Burton's, travel to Avalon and the Archipelago but discover it in ruins and learn that two thousand years have passed in the Archipelago since their last visit.

Timoci Tuivaga

Tuivaga, who hails from the village of Yaroi on Matuku Island, in the Lau archipelago, is the son of Isimeili Siga Tuivaga and Jessie Hill.

Tjorven

Based on a book by the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, the story is about a number of characters living in the archipelago outside Stockholm.

Trading Diaspora

As Gosch explains “premodern world system was to some extent an “archipelago of towns” in which urban centers in Europe (Bruges, Ghent, Genoa and Venice), the Middle East (Cairo, Aden, and Hormuz), and Asia (Samarkand, Calicut, Kanchipuram, Malacca, Quanzhou and Hangzhou) were connected to one another by trade and shared in a common culture of commerce.

Utö

Utö, Sweden, an island in the Stockholm archipelago in Sweden

Vargon

Vargön, Piteå, an island in the northwest of the Swedish sector of the Bay of Bothnia, in the Piteå archipelago

Zeeland

Captain James Cook of Britain subsequently called the archipelago New Zealand and soon after, British settlers arrived in New Zealand and English became the main language.


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