Aleutian Islands is a physical feature (island) in Aleutians West (CA) Borough.
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Feature Name: | Aleutian Islands |
Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
Feature Type: | Physical |
Class: | Island |
Description: | Island chain separating the Bering Sea from the Pacific Ocean, extending in a arc from the Alaska Peninsula WSW approximately 1100 mi to and including Attu Island approximately 600 mi E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Soviet Union. |
History: | "Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), (1770-1846) first proposed that the name ""Aleutian"" (1827, v. 2, p. 78), used to designate the native people living on the islands, be applied to the whole archipelago; linguistic origin and meaning of the name is unknown. The chain includes five major groups; Andreanof Islands, Fox Islands, Islands of Four Mountains, Near Islands, and Rat Islands." |
Borough: | Aleutians West (CA) Borough |
Latitude: | 52.0969429016 |
Longitude: | -173.500549316 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Aleutian Islands: Aleutian Islands.
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