Archipelago vs Peninsula - What's the difference?
archipelago | peninsula |
A group of islands.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
Something scattered around like an archipelago.
(geography) A piece of land projecting into water from a larger land mass.
As nouns the difference between archipelago and peninsula
is that archipelago is a group of islands while peninsula is a piece of land projecting into water from a larger land mass.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
