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Aleutian Islands: Alaska Peninsula
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The Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands comprise a bleak, stark land with few trees and sparse wildlife. Born of a chain of volcanoes, the Aleutians still experience volcanic upheavals on a regular basis. Access is limited to plane and boat, as no roads connect this remote region with the rest of Alaska. The weather here can be notably foul, with rainstorms being the rule rather than the exception. Winters are relatively mild, with frequent rains and wet snow. The Aleutian Islands are a chain of small volcanic islands forming an island arc situated in the Northern Pacific Ocean, and extending about 1,200 miles westward from the extremity of the Alaskan peninsula toward the Kamchatka Peninsula.
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The Aleutian Islands and the Alaskan peninsula are shown in this image acquired by the MODIS on the Terra satellite, on May 25th, 2006. The Aleutians are a chain of more than 300 small volcanic islands forming an island arc in the Northern Pacific Ocean. They extend about 1,200 miles westward from the Alaskan Peninsula. Nearly all of the islands are part of Alaska, but at the extreme western end of the archipelago are the small, geologically-related, but remote Komandorski Islands, which are considered part of Russia.
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The Aleutian Islands extend westward over 1,300 miles from the southwestern corner of the Alaska mainland, and include the Pribilof Islands which lie to the north. This area is distributed over an area of approximately 100,000 square miles, a region slightly larger than Virginia, Kentucky and Maryland combined. This area is ... a heavily active volcanic region. Click here for a map of the active volcanoes in this region. The 13 communities represented by A/PIA are Akutan, Atka, Belkofski, False Pass, King Cove, Nelson Lagoon, Nikolski, Pauloff Harbor, Sand Point, St. George, St. Paul, Unalaska, and Unga. Other communities that are a part of the Aleutian Chain, but not a part of A/PIA are: Adak, Amchitka, and Attu.
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In addition to the islands that extend westwards from the tip of the Alaska Peninsula, the Aleutian Islands are generally considered to include ... those islands and groups of islands that lie off the southern third of the Alaska Peninsula. This includes the Sanak, Pavlof and Shumagin Islands. In all, there are around two dozen larger islands and hundreds of small islets.
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The Aleutian Islands extend westward over 1,300 miles from the southwestern corner of the Alaska Mainland, and include the Pribilof Islands, which lie to the north. This area is distributed over approximately 100,000 square miles, a region slightly larger than Virginia, Kentucky, and Maryland combined.
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The Aleuts lives were once again interrupted during World War II when Japanese forces invaded and occupied Attu and Kiska Islands on the western most end of the Aleutian chain. The U.S. Government evacuated most of the people from the Aleutian region and relocated them to interment camps in Southeast Alaska where many of them died due to wretched living conditions. The government began paying back the internment victims with money from the Aleut Restitution Act passed by Congress in 1988.
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