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Aleutian Islands

American  

plural noun

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


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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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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

Breeding occurs in regions spanning from Año Nuevo Island in Central California to the Kuril Islands north of Japan, with the greatest concentration of breeding grounds in the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026

Along the West Coast, marbled murrelets are found regularly from Santa Cruz, California, to the Aleutian Islands.

From Science Daily ● May 2, 2024

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

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 A. H. Savage Landor

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