The remains of a giant meat-eating sea monster that patrolled the oceans during the reign of the dinosaurs have been unearthed on an island in the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.

一只在恐龙统治时期巡海的巨型食肉海怪遗骸已在北极偏远地区斯瓦尔巴群岛的一个小岛上出土了。

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Russia’s northernmost territory, Franz Josef Land, is an archipelago of 191 islands in the northeastern Barents Sea.

俄罗斯最北部的法兰士约瑟夫地群岛，位于巴伦支海的东北部，并由191个岛屿组成。

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Like many of the list's top-scoring islands, the Lofoten archipelago in the Norwegian Sea has avoided excessive tourism partly because its nippy climate doesn't draw the beach-party set.

与榜单上其他得分较高的岛屿一样，挪威海的罗浮敦群岛避免了过度旅游的问题，因为这里凛冽的气候并不适合海滩晚会。

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On the other hand, Dubai's architecture of excess is fading fast as a report revealed that the emirate's world-shaped archipelago of islands is sinking into the sea.

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Bacuit Bay, home to an archipelago of 45 islands bordering the South China Sea, occupies a place in the Filipino psychogeography like Alaska's in the American imagination: an unspoiled national Eden that few citizens ever get around to visiting.

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Nearly 2, 000 years ago, the indigenous Northwest people inhabited the remote Anthony Island as well as other spits of land that make up the Queen Charlotte Islands, sandwiched between the Hecate Strait and the Pacific. (In the Haida tongue, Anthony Island is known as SGang Gwaay and Queen Charlotte is Haida Gwaii.) The tribes' people, whose population likely peaked at more than 7, 000 archipelago-wide, were Neptunes of the sea.

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