This chain of islands stretches several hundred kilometres from northeast to southwest.
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列岛 is a group of islands strung out in a line or arc, and mostly ends a name, as in 庙岛列岛 in the Bohai Strait or 马祖列岛 off Fujian. The general word for an archipelago is 群岛, as in 舟山群岛.
