Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Built Environment (hierarchy name)
4. Settlements and Landscapes (hierarchy name)
5. landscapes (environments)
6. natural landscapes
7. landforms (terrestrial)
8. landmasses
9. islands (landforms)
10. island groups

Anotations

Scope note:

Areas of dry or relatively dry land or islands surrounded by water or low wetland; island groups considered archipelagos are characterized by compactness and adjacency. The original Greek meaning referred to the water in which such islands were located.