But the country was not so attractive in appearance as the beautiful Pacific archipelagosfarther north and east.
These, and others farther west, were little archipelagos of minute islands to the north of the Solomon group and near the great island of Bougainville.
Fortune had favoured Columbus in thus guiding him into the centre of one of the most beautiful archipelagos which the world contains.
But it is often a matter of difficulty to settle with accuracy to which of these nations the discovery of certain islands, countries, or archipelagos in the neighbourhood of Australia, may be due.
Soon, means of navigation, although rude, were added to the power of travelling by land, and man passed from the continent to distant islands, and thus peopled the archipelagos as well as the mainland.
By means of transport, effected in canoes formed from the trunks of trees barely hollowed out, the archipelagos of the Indian Ocean, and finally Australia, were gradually peopled.
The two richest archipelagos in the world are practically at our disposal.
By means of it England founds an empire which will extend over the continent of New Holland, Van Diemen's Land, all the islands of Bass Strait, New Zealand, and the numerous archipelagos of the Pacific Ocean.
Traverse all those archipelagos which, like so many stepping-stones, are scattered between New Holland and the west coast of America.
In longitude their possessions had been fixed as reaching from 105 degrees west of Greenwich to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, including all the archipelagos with which it is strewn.
The Government is particularly occupied with endeavouring to discover upon some one of these archipelagos a strong military post, a species of arsenal, nearer to the coasts of Peru and Chili.
Fernando, Duke of Viseu, the grant of the Archipelagos of Madeira and the Azores, vacant by the death of D.
Antilles or West Indies, theArchipelagos to the East and North, Carib and Lucayes islands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "archipelagos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
