Amchitka
Americannoun
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As of 11pm this evening Buoy 46071 south of Amchitka Island in the Western Aleutians has recorded seas to 41 feet🌊🌊!!
From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2022
A buoy off Amchitka Island measured an average wave height of 58.1 feet, or nearly six stories.
From Fox News ● Jan. 2, 2021
Amchitka Island was mentioned repeatedly by the interrogators.
From Washington Times ● May 31, 2014
The Atomic Energy Commission's announcement that it planned to test a multimegaton nuclear device under the Aleutian island of Amchitka last November touched off a shock wave of protest.
From Time Magazine Archive
EPA opposed one of the Bureau of Reclamation's dam-building projects, the Interior Department's tentative approval of the trans-Alaska pipeline and, reportedly, the Atomic Energy Commission's nuclear test at Amchitka.
From Time Magazine Archive
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