Low Archipelago

British  

noun

1. another name for the Tuamotu Archipelago

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Example Sentences

Soon he comes to a swarm of insignificant islands called the Low Archipelago.

From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Hedin, Sven Anders

All these species are peculiar to this archipelago; and so is the whole group, with the exception of one species of the sub-group Cactornis, lately brought from Bow Island, in the Low Archipelago.

From The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles

This placid lake, over which the dinghy was pursuing the running ripple, was heaving to an imperceptible swell and breaking on the shores of the Low Archipelago, and the Marquesas in foam and thunder.

From The Blue Lagoon: a romance by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)

Vliegen atoll in the Low Archipelago, measured from lagoon edge to lagoon edge, is sixty miles long by twenty miles broad, at its broadest part.

From The Blue Lagoon: a romance by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)

Sometimes barrier reefs completely encircle an island or islands, which are usually mountainous, as in the case of Pouynip�te, an island in the Caroline Archipelago, and the Gambier Islands in the Low Archipelago.

From Geology by Geikie, James