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Low Archipelago

noun

  1. another name for the Tuamotu Archipelago
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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You may be aware that the Low Archipelago belongs to France.

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.

Nobody questioned his account of hailing from the Low Archipelago, or the curiously yachtlike snap to his craft, or his own odd employment on a pearling license.

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

I have traded to many islands in many groups—even the Low Archipelago—but the island where that dance was indigenous I am sure I've never touched.

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