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

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

The deep ocean off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands is one of the least mapped places in the U.S., partly due to its remoteness.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 14, 2023

The Aleutians.—The aboriginal inhabitants of the Aleutian Islands are termed Aleuts or Aleutians, a word of obscure and perhaps foreign derivation.

From North America by Russell, Israel C. (Cook)