30 Most Incredible Island Archipelagos
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Indian & Mediterranean Archipelagos
1. The Maldivian capital of Male offers a different view of one of the world’s luxurious archipelago destinations. Appearing to float on an atoll in the Indian Ocean, Male just about survived the tsunami of 2004, and there are fears that a number of its 26 atolls will be underwater in less than 20 years.
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2. Langkawi sits 30 km off mainland Malaysia in the Andaman Sea and consists of 99 islands, which until 1987 remained relatively undisturbed by visitors. Now, Langkawi is a major holiday destination offering miles of sandy coastline and the scary looking Sky Bridge, which sits 700 meters above sea level.
Brooklyn Hilary
3. The rice terraces of Ubud in Bali are a familiar sight across much of the Malay Archipelago, the name given to around 20,000 islands between Southeast Asia and Australia, which include Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, East Timor and the majority of Papua New Guinea.
Panomaria
4.The Phi Phi islands are an archipelago of just six islands located off the coast of Thailand and are governed by the mainland province of Krabi. Ko Phi Phi Don is the main inhabited island and was immortalized in the Leonardo DiCaprio film, The Beach. Residents were none too pleased with 20th Century Fox’s behavior – they bulldozed the beach, clearing native coconut trees and sand dunes to make it look more like paradise. Law suits for damages meant they did not return to repair the damage, as was agreed.
Paul Brockmeyer
The islands were devastated by the 2004 tsunami to a certain degree, locals say it cleared all the landscaping done by Fox and it is slowly returning to its former glory.
Chmouel Boudjnah
5. The Kerguelen Islands, also known as Desolation Island, is an archipelago in the Southern Indian Ocean and has a climate much like the Aleutian Islands of Alaska.
Themadchopper
6. Popular with many a backpacker, the Greek islands are made up of a number of island groups and are otherwise known as the Aegean Islands. In fact the Aegean Sea was once called the Archipelago Sea.
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The term archipelago was soon used to refer to any island group or sea containing a cluster of scattered islands, like the original Archipelago Sea.
Private Island
7. The Balearic Islands are an autonomous archipelago off the east coast of Spain, in the Mediterranean Sea, and comprise of Mallorca, Ibiza, Menorca and Formentera. The highest peak, Puig Major, reaches 1,445 meters high and can be found on the largest island of Mallorca. All the islands are very popular with holiday-makers the year round, with Ibiza being Europe’s Mecca for clubbers.
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November 5th, 2008 at 2:44 am
I was fascinated in finding this publication. I love islands and was trying to find a list of them round the world.
Although i would like to mention, being myself from Argentina, that Tierra del Fuego is also one of the 24 provinces of my country. Leaving aside the dispute between Chile and Argentina for territories that has been going on for years, i wanted to mention that Tierra del Fuego argentina is also a beautiful place, and has amazing islands.
In this province you can find what we argentineans call “el faro del fin del mundo” which means the lighthouse of the end of the world. A place that has a special mistic, being close to the “estrecho de Drake”, where to oceans meat. It is said that the sound of the oceans is so loud that no other noice is heard.
November 5th, 2008 at 2:45 am
“where to oceans meat” is miss written. it should say: “where 2 oceans meet”
November 5th, 2008 at 3:50 am
Nice way to encourage long-distance flights for holidays, you hypocritical eco-freaks.
November 5th, 2008 at 8:12 am
Have you ever heard of Malta?
November 5th, 2008 at 10:14 am
You forgot the Faroe Islands, an archipelago in the North Atlantic.
Named Best Island Travel Destination by the National Geographic Traveler panel of experts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow2HumAf13w
November 5th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Should be east coast of Spain.
The Stockholm archipelago in Sweden are far more interesting/beautiful/complex than the Finnish (and the German/Danish). And all of them are in the Baltic Sea.
November 5th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
the sad thing is you didn’t see fit to link to the full size images.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:52 am
Those are some gorgeous photos. The colors seem surreal. I’m going to put some of them on my Vision Board. Simply beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:55 am
wow!!!wonderful!!!i have nothing to say,
perfect!!!!
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November 6th, 2008 at 2:05 am
very beautiful islands…
too perfect for vacations!!
http://mabelacostacitycouncil.blogspot.com
November 6th, 2008 at 4:31 am
If there was such an island and I’m a billionaire, I’d ask Bond to live with me and we’d have the sun to ourselves.
November 6th, 2008 at 8:45 am
Really amazing places to see from the air and ground.
Must be great to be able to see places like this
in person. Its good to know about locations like these.
Thanks from tony
November 6th, 2008 at 11:05 am
ha ha christopher’s made me laugh……have to add
have you ever heard of MADAGASCAR??
November 6th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
rofl @ joeplumba ’s comment. i guess you could take a boat though lol
November 7th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
very nice post!
..though one correction from my side:
The Frisian Argipelagos are not all owned by Germany, five of the islands situated in the ‘Waddenzee’ are Dutch.
February 2nd, 2009 at 5:44 pm
I am surprised that there is no mention of the archipelagos in the Indian Ocean or have you not heard of the Andaman and Nicobar islands, Lakshadweep islands.
April 18th, 2009 at 7:49 am
This is gorgeous…! It’s on my “List of Places to Go Before I Die…”! (And I’m a Travel Agent!LOL)
June 19th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Greetings Islanders,
I just got back from filming Tahiti, The Islands of Love in HD.
The trailers are up on youtube.com/alphaember
If you click on the HD icon, you can see it in HD.
Please leave your comments there.
You can also see my film of the Carnivale di Venezia, & a Road Trip on Highway 1
Take care,
Regards
Bonnie
August 29th, 2009 at 9:13 am
nice report but many small ilands are absent here of south east asia.
October 9th, 2009 at 12:42 am
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