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Rat Islands

American  
[rat] / ræt /

noun

(used with a plural verb)

  1. a group of islands in SW Alaska, in the W Aleutian Islands.

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South of the Rat Islands, beneath the grey-green greasy Pacific swells off Alaska and close to the international date line that keeps Thursday from being Friday, an American submersible is missing.

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