Dr. Nguyen’s team has been sailing from beach to beach, gathering samples from separate land masses in the South Pacific. The land masses are located near each other and strung out in a long line. Which type of landform are they researching?

An archipelago is a group or chain of islands, often located near one another. Since the team is sampling separate land masses near each other and strung out in a long line, they are researching an archipelago. A plateau, basin, or butte is a single landform, not a group of islands.

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