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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

On clear days Fox Islands and Beaver Island can be plainly seen.

From A Child of the Sea; and Life Among the Mormons by Elizabeth Whitney Williams

It is met with in great abundance in Behring's Island, Kamtschatka, Aleutian and Fox Islands, and is also taken on the opposite coasts of North America.

From Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Washington Irving

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