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Fox Islands

American  

plural noun

  1. a group of islands, including Unimak and Unalaska, in the Aleutian chain, SW Alaska.


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This would extend the Bering Sea boundary west and south to Alaska’s Fox Islands, through Unimak Pass to the edge of the continental slope, the agency said in a statement.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 11, 2022

On the evening of the summer solstice of 2013, I moored my sailboat in the Fox Islands Thoroughfare, one of the most beautiful places I know.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 5, 2014

The boat capsized early Monday near the Fox Islands, west of Charlevoix during the Chicago Yacht Club race.

From Newsweek • Jul. 18, 2011

Volcanoes multiply in number as we advance westward, in the peninsula of Alaska and the Fox Islands, where the volcano Ajagedan rises to the height of 1175 toises above the level of the sea.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Humboldt, Alexander von

From Alaska the line is continued through the Aleutian or Fox Islands to Kamtschatka.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

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