There are more than 160 archipelagos in this world. Although they are all archipelagos, they are of different sizes. Usually, a large archipelago of a considerable size will have sea areas inside, as long as it is not narrow and long. For example, British Isles has Irish Sea , Japanese Isles has Seto Inland Sea , etc. The world's largest archipelago, , the Malay Islands , it also lacks sea areas. It has as many as 16 seas inside it.
Basically, there are sea areas among the top archipelagos in the world, with only one archipelago. It has a large number of islands, but between the islands, there are only the straits and the bays. Why is this?
Introduction
Let me give you an introduction first.
This archipelago is Canadian Arctic Islands . It is the second largest archipelago in the world after the Malay Islands, with many islands and long and tortuous coastlines. These islands are generally very young, and only 11,000 years ago. The types of landforms are also very rich, including mountains, plains, plateaus, etc. Baffin Island , Elsmere Island , Axel Heiberg Island is the higher island in the archipelago, with mountains on the island. The highest peak of the archipelago, Babo Peak, is located on Elsmere Island. The main components of the northern islands are granite and gneiss , while the southern islands are mainly sedimentary rock . It is located in the tundra climate of cold zone and , and most of the annual precipitation is less than 200 meters.
There are many islands but the islands are full of straits and bays in the middle
Then, get on track. Find the Arctic Islands on the world map and observe. Can you see that this archipelago has this characteristic?
In fact, they are the bay besides the straits. Especially Coroneshen Bay, Queen Maud Bay, Bay of Busia and Forks Bay, I don’t know the names, and I don’t need to mention you, I can’t tell 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, called the Palli Strait. It is also divided into multiple parts, such as McClure Strait, Melville Viscount Strait , Lancaster Strait , and so on. Because they are on the same curve and are also where the Arctic waterway passes, it has this unified name. Its length can reach more than 1,000 kilometers, and among all the straits in the world, it is second only to , the Mozambique Strait . As for the name Palli Strait, I only recently learned about it from the Internet.
In addition to the above listed, the Arctic Islands are also filled with several bays and a large number of fjords and straits. Their common feature is that the coastlines on both sides are consistent and shallow. These straits and bays separate the major islands of the world. Through the following two pictures, you can observe how many straits there are.
In any case, overall, it is an archipelago full of straits and bays.
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