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The subject of this article is from the Frontiers update.
The information from this article is up-to-date as of 15 February, 2022. |
The information from this article is up-to-date as of 15 February, 2022.
| Archipelago | |
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| Type | Geographical feature |
| Description | Island group or chain |
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This article is about the current version of Archipelago. For the Atlas Rises version, see Archive:Archipelago (Atlas). |
An Archipelago is a geographical feature.
Summary[]
An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster or collection of islands. It is used to refer to any island group or sometimes to a sea containing a small number of scattered islands. It is also one of the less-common categories of oceanic planet terrain.
The archipelago terrain typically has a wide variety of density of land coverage on a world, anywhere from 25-60% of the world covered by land vs. water.
Types[]
Archipelagos may be found isolated in large amounts of water or neighbouring a large land mass. Archipelagos may be of volcanic origin, but may also be the result of erosion, deposition, and land elevation. Depending on their geological origin, islands forming archipelagos can be referred to as:
- Oceanic islands - mainly of volcanic origin
- Continental fragments - land masses that have separated from a continental mass due to tectonic displacement
- Continental islands - sets of islands formed close to the coast of a continent when they form part of the same continental shelf so islands are just exposed continental shelf.[1]
In general the archipelago implementation in the NMS planets is always mountainous and/or rough hills. They often feature honeycomb Terrain Archetypes.
Game application[]
In No Man's Sky, all features are procedurally generated, so the types of archipelagos present in the game are by definition undetermined. Most of the island groups fall into the category of continental islands.
A game example is the Yedownbelm archipelago on the planet of Jinjukuoka-Reho LX94.
References[]
- ā Wikipedia (13 March 2017). Archipelago.