SSC
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
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Question
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Antilles
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Archipelago
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Alps
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Appalachians
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Detailed explanation-1: -A group of islands is collectively called Archipelago. An island is a piece of land that is surrounded on all sides by water. Most archipelagoes are made of oceanic islands. So the islands were formed by volcanoes erupting from the ocean.
Detailed explanation-2: -Malay Archipelago, largest group of islands in the world, consisting of the more than 17, 000 islands of Indonesia and the approximately 7, 000 islands of the Philippines.
Detailed explanation-3: -A body of water that contains many closely scattered islands can also be called an “archipelago". The Hawaiian islands, the Aleutian Islands, the Florida Keys, Bermuda, The Bahamas, the Philippines, the Canary Islands, Indonesia, and islands in the Aegean Sea are all examples of archipelagos.