Aleutian
Americanadjective
noun
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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
A hypothetical magnitude-9.3 earthquake near Alaska’s eastern Aleutian Islands could bring a damaging tsunami to the San Francisco Bay Area in about five hours, and to L.A. and Orange counties in about six.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 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
For instance, song sparrows that live year-round in the Aleutian Islands can be up to three times larger than their counterparts in the coastal marshes of California.
From Science Daily • Nov. 7, 2023
Range.—"Arctic and subarctic coasts of the northern hemisphere, Aleutian Islands, east to Unalaska and Kadiak; Kenai Peninsula."
From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.
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