| FAEROE | ___ Islands (archipelago in the North Atlantic) |
| FAROE | _ Islands, archipelago in the North Atlantic; an autonomous territory of Denmark (5) |
| ANDAMAN | ___ Islands, archipelago in the Bay of Bengal; home of the Sentinelese people (7) |
| MATSU | ___ Islands, archipelago in the East China Sea |
| VIRGIN | ____ Islands, archipelago in the Caribbean Sea (6) |
| CAROLINE | ? Islands, archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean north of New Guinea |
| GALAPAGOS | The _ Islands, archipelago of volcanic islands either side of the equator in the Pacific Ocean (9) |
| ALEUTIAN | __ Islands, archipelago stretching from Alaska into the North Pacific (8) |
| STKILDA | An isolated archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean that contains the westernmost islands of the Outer Hebrides |
| WINDWARD | --- Islands, archipelago in which St Lucia is located |
| ORKNEY | ___ Islands (Archipelago off Scotland's northeastern coast) |
| CHANNEL | ___ Islands; archipelago including Alderney, Guernsey and Jersey (7) |
| LEEWARD | ___ Islands, archipelago including Antigua (7) |
| CANARY | ____ Islands, archipelago that includes La Gomera and El Hierro (6) |
| HELIGOLAND | Archipelago in the North Sea ceded by Britain to Germany in 1890 in exchange for Zanzibar |
| THEAZORES | Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic (3,6) |
| AZORES | Portuguese archipelago in the north Atlantic (6) |
| MADEIRA | Portuguese archipelago in the north Atlantic Ocean (7) |
| HEBRIDES | Archipelago in the north-west of Scotland (8) |
| ALEUTIANISLANDS | Idle Asian sultan mismanaged archipelago in the North Pacific (8,7) |
