The Atlantic Archipelago

A less common name for a certain archipelago containing over 6000 islands off the north-western coast of continental Europe. Home to over 70 million people, in two sovereign states and a Crown Depency - how much do you know about this archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean?

Does not include the Channel Islands as they do not form part of the archipelago. Likewise for Rockall.

For extremes the lat/long coordinates are provided in the answer, in case you want to go and see their locations on a map!

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Sovereign States
Ireland
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Crown Dependency
Isle of Man

Seas and oceans
Atlantic Ocean
Celtic Sea
Irish Sea
North Sea
Sea of the Hebrides

Straits
English Channel
Menai Strait
North Channel
Pentland Firth
St George's Channel
Strait of Dover
The Minch

Inland water
Deepest	Loch Morar (310 m)
Largest by area	Lough Neagh (151 km2)
Largest by volume	Loch Ness (7.45 km3)
Longest river	River Shannon (360.5 km)

Extremes
Highest point	Ben Nevis (1345 m)
Lowest point	North Slob (3 m below sea level)
Northernmost point	Out Stack (60°51′N 0°52′W)
Southernmost point	Pednathise Head (49°51′N 6°24′W)
Easternmost point	Lowestoft Ness (52°29′N 1°46′E)
Westernmost point	Foze Rocks (10° 41.3')

Island sub groups
Aran Islands
Blasket Islands / The Blaskets
Inner Hebrides
Isles of Scilly
Orkney Islands
Outer Hebrides
Shetland Islands
Skellig Islands / The Skelligs

10 Largest islands by area
209,331 km2	Great Britain
81,638 km2	Ireland
2,179 km2	Lewis and Harris
1,656 km2	Isle of Skye
969 km2	Mainland (Shetland)
875 km2	Isle of Mull
714 km2	Anglesey (including Holy Island)
620 km2	Islay
572 km2	Isle of Man
523 km2	Mainland (Orkney)

Living indigenous languages
BANZSL	British Sign Language
	Northern Irish Sign Language
Celtic (Brittonic)	Cornish
	Welsh
Celtic (Goidelic)	Irish
	Manx Gaelic
	Scottish Gaelic
Francosign	Irish Sign Language
Germanic	English
	Scots
Mixed	Angloromani
	Shelta ("the Cant")

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