Aleutian Islands

American  

plural noun

1. an archipelago extending SW from the Alaska Peninsula: part of Alaska.

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Aleutian Islands British  

plural noun

1. a chain of over 150 volcanic islands, extending southwestwards from the Alaska Peninsula between the N Pacific and the Bering Sea

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Aleutian Islands Cultural  

1. Chain of volcanic (see volcano) islands off western Alaska between the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean.

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Example Sentences

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

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

Most of the Aleutian Islands belong to the U.S. state of Alaska, but the Commander Islands near the Kamchatka Peninsula are part of Russia.

From Reuters • Aug. 27, 2023

These whales breed and calve along the Pacific coast of Mexico and feed from California to Alaska’s Aleutian Islands.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2023

Pacific; breeds from Vancouver north to Aleutian Islands; winters south to southern California.

From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.