Aleutian
Americanadjective
noun
Example Sentences
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The catch, so to speak, is that the boats must travel much farther north—to fisheries 220 miles above the Aleutian Islands, the crabbers’ old hunting grounds.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
From there we hopscotched to Chile, up to Mexico City, and then out to Alaska’s remote Aleutian Chain, where a sturdy, generous band of believers make their living off the Bering Sea.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025
Among them is Veleropilina gretchenae, a newly identified mollusk recovered from the Aleutian Trench at 6,465 meters.
From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025
In the northern Pacific Ocean, undersea slopes leading to the Aleutian Trench are believed to teem with worms, clams, anemones, and countless microbes thriving on methane bubbling up from the sediment.
From Science Magazine • May 21, 2024
All evidence tends to show that they came either from Kamschatka, or perhaps more probably from the Aleutian Islands.
From Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. by Landor, A. H. Savage
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