In this world, there are more than 160 archipelagos, and although they are all archipelagos, they are all different sizes. Usually, a large archipelago of comparable size will have sea areas inside, as long as they are not narrow and strip-shaped. For example, the British Isles have the Irish Sea, the Japanese Islands have the Seto Inland Sea, and so on. The world's largest archipelago, the Malay Archipelago, it also does not lack seas, and its interior has as many as 16 seas.
Basically, there are sea areas in the world's largest archipelago by land area, except for one archipelago, which has a large number of islands, but between the islands, except for the straits are bays. Why is that?
Brief introduction
Let me start with an introduction.
This archipelago is the Canadian Arctic Islands. It is the second largest archipelago in the world after the Malay Archipelago, with many islands and a long and winding coastline. The islands are generally young, appearing only 11,000 years ago. There are also abundant types of landforms, including mountains, plains, plateaus, and so on. Baffin Island, Ellesmere Island and Axelheimer Island are the highest islands in the archipelago, with mountains on the island, and the highest peak of the archipelago, Gbagbo Peak, is located on Ellesmere Island. The northern islands are mainly composed of granite and gneiss, while the southern part is dominated by sedimentary rocks. It is located in a boreal tundra climate, and most of the annual precipitation is below 200 meters.
An archipelago with many islands but full of straits and bays
Then, get on track. Find the Arctic archipelago on the world map and observe. Can you see this characteristic of this archipelago?
In fact, they are bays except for the strait. Especially Coroneshen Bay, Queen Maud Bay, Busia Bay and Fox Bay, I don't know the names, needless to say, I don't see that they are actually bays.
Also, have you seen a dozen large islands on both sides of a strait? Such a strait is also in the Arctic Islands, it is called the Parry Strait. It is also divided into sections such as McClure Strait, Viscount Melville Strait, Lancaster Strait, and many more. Because they are on the same curve and where the Arctic Passage passes, it has this unified name. It can reach a length of more than a thousand kilometers, and it is second only to the Mozambique Channel among all the straits in the world. As for the name Parry Strait, I also recently learned about it from the Internet.
In addition to the above, the Arctic archipelago is filled with several bays and a large number of fjords and straits, which have a common feature of the coastline on both sides and are shallow. These straits and bays separate the world's major islands. Through the following two diagrams, you can observe how many straits there are.
In any case, in general, it is an archipelago full of straits and bays.
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