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n. An archipelago consisting of neighboring islands which are roughly aligned, as if chained one to the next.
Usage examples of "island chain".
Perhaps Japan would win the southern half of the island chain, perhaps even just take back Kunashir, and let Russia keep the northern, mostly unpopulated, and smaller islands.
The women paid close attention, knowing that Maia herself had no intention of leaving the island chain.
Sumburgh Head is the southernmost point of the whole island chain, the tip of a long finger of mountainous land jutting south from the main port of Lerwick.
Unseen off the starboard wing, the Aleutian Island chain slowly curled northeast.
Australians and New Guineans, separated from the Asian mainland by the Indonesian island chain, received only a trickle of inventions from Asia.
He indicated a route from Allansport to Cape Titan, then through an island chain in the Sea of Mariners.
But under the shade of his hands Shann saw the canoe again, beyond the reef, heading on out along the island chain, not back to shore as he had expected.