Word: archipelagos
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...North Pole is a strategic hotspot. Over the ice-capped roof of the world run the shortest air routes from Russia to the U.S. Last week, the general public learned for the first time that Russia is interested in Norway's bleak Spitsbergen archipelago, within the Arctic Circle (Spitsbergen to Pittsburgh: 3,500 miles...
...Dutch established some safeguards against big business exploitation of the natives. Result: Indonesian leaders, some of whom are rich, now feel that they can manage their fabulously rich archipelago (37% of the world's rubber, 3% of its oil, 91% of its quinine), preferably through public ownership of key industries...
...British expedition of three or more ships has been operating quietly down below for two years, probably from U.S.-built bases in the Antarctic archipelago south of Argentina. Soon the British will have heavy U.S. competition...
Thirty years ago a young wife was hauled up a sheer 600-ft. cliff to her new home in the Faroe Islands. She hasn't yet made up her mind to come down again. Six hundred years ago her Viking ancestors on the craggy basalt archipelago, jutting sharply from the sea 250 miles north of Scotland, came under Danish rule. They haven't yet made up their minds to shake...
...pulled down and carried away to Panama. The broad macadamized fighter strip is now abandoned, and only our three visiting B-17s are visible beside the longer main strip. Soon there may be only the caretakers left. Dull, drab Seymour Island may shortly revert to the goats, and the archipelago itself to the naturalists...