Love entering strangely garish place in islands (12)

'islands' is the definition.

'love entering strangely garish place' is the wordplay.
'love' becomes 'o' (In tennis, 'love' means 'zero').
'entering' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'strangely' indicates anagramming the letters.
'garish'+'place'='garishplace'
'garishplace' with letters rearranged gives 'archipelags'.
'o' going into 'archipelags' is 'ARCHIPELAGOS'.

'in' is the link.