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What kind of landforms make up Hawaii in the United States and the Falklands in South America?

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Archipelago

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An archipelago is a group of islands closely scattered in a water thereby forming a landform. Most archipelagos like Hawaii are formed when volcanoes erupt from the ocean floor.

Hawaii is an archipelago comprising of 8 major islands, islets, seamounts and covering a distance of about 1500 miles. The Falklands is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf covering a distance of about about 300 miles.

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