The archipelago nation bestrides the world’s busiest sea lanes.

这个群岛国家跨越了世上最繁忙的海上通道。

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The remains of a giant meat-eating sea monster that patrolled the oceans during the reign of the dinosaurs have been unearthed on an island in the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.

一只在恐龙统治时期巡海的巨型食肉海怪遗骸已在北极偏远地区斯瓦尔巴群岛的一个小岛上出土了。

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Russia’s northernmost territory, Franz Josef Land, is an archipelago of 191 islands in the northeastern Barents Sea.

俄罗斯最北部的法兰士约瑟夫地群岛，位于巴伦支海的东北部，并由191个岛屿组成。

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While on the archipelago the sea is everywhere and so are swimming options.

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On the other hand, Dubai's architecture of excess is fading fast as a report revealed that the emirate's world-shaped archipelago of islands is sinking into the sea.

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Bacuit Bay, home to an archipelago of 45 islands bordering the South China Sea, occupies a place in the Filipino psychogeography like Alaska's in the American imagination: an unspoiled national Eden that few citizens ever get around to visiting.

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