Archipelago vs Westmans - What's the difference?
archipelago | westmans |
A group of islands.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
Something scattered around like an archipelago.
As a noun archipelago
is a group of islands.As a proper noun Westmans is
the Westman Isles, Vestmannaeyjar, an archipelago of Iceland.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