Isles vs Archipelago - What's the difference?
isles | archipelago |
A group of islands.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
Something scattered around like an archipelago.
As nouns the difference between isles and archipelago
is that isles is while archipelago is a group of islands.archipelago
English
Noun
(wikipedia archipelago) (en-noun)- For many years past the whaleship has been the pioneer in ferreting out the remotest and least known parts of the earth. She has explored seas and archipelagoes which had no chart, where no Cook or Vancouver had ever sailed.
- The Gulag Archipelago