archipelago

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archipelago Read it as Arey+ship+pe+lejaoo (Hindi .. which translates to take me there via ship)... And we travel to islands via a ship.

Consider the "CHIP" in the word.It sounds like SHIP..we use ships to travel to islands..So archipelago refers to a group of islands.

Age of Empires map type.

Think of an ARK filled with PELICANS sailing between the islands = ARK OF PELICANS