ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Arctic Archipelago mean? 

• ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO (noun)
  The noun ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO has 1 sense:

1. all the islands that lie to the north of mainland Canada and the Arctic Circle

  Familiarity information: ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

All the islands that lie to the north of mainland Canada and the Arctic Circle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)

Holonyms ("Arctic Archipelago" is a part of...):

Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)

 Context examples 

An Arctic territory in northern Canada created in 1999 and governed solely by the Inuit; includes the eastern part of what was the Northwest Territories and most of the islands of the Arctic Archipelago.

(Nunavut, NCI Thesaurus)