Talk:List of archipelagos by number of islands

Greenland
...is an island, separated from Ellesmere Island by a narrow strait. So why do we have a Canadian Arctic archipelago, rather than a canadian/greenland arctic archipelago? Aldenrw (talk) 02:15, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

South America
All those islands in southern Chile, see here, what about them? --Sigmundur (talk) 07:48, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Vague definitions
The whole list is vague because two key notions are not defined: what counts as an island and what counts as an archipelago. First, you get wildly different numbers depending on how small islands are included. (For example - if you counted the "islands in Finland", you could say 178 947 (size>0.01 ha) or 75 818 (size>0.5 ha)). Secondly, if an "archipelago" is a chain or cluster of islands, how far apart may they be? Could we call all islands of the Swedish east coast an archipelago, extending from Haparanda to Skåne? --Jmk (talk) 13:24, 12 December 2012 (UTC)


 * I agree and have tagged as Synthesis. Even if each row in the table were sourced, there is no guarantee that the various sources would have the same definition of "island" or "archipelago". jnestorius(talk) 07:58, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

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