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The Aleutian Islands archipelago is one of the most fragile and wondrous places on Earth. It is home to extraordinary deep-sea corals, 25 marine mammal species, seabirds from all seven continents and hundreds of species of fish. Aleutian fisheries are a critical part of Alaska's economy and part of the region that provides for more than half of the catch of multibillion-dollar U.S. fisheries.
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Two significant earthquakes that shook Alaska's remote Aleutian Islands were followed Friday morning by two smaller quakes, but there were no reports of any damage or injuries. The temblors were probably aftershocks of a magnitude-7.2 quake that hit the seismically active but sparsely populated island chain Tuesday.
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Alaska's Aleutian Islands mark the northern rim of the Pacific Ring of Fire, a region of volcanic activity surrounding the Pacific Ocean. On the south side of the Islands is the Aleutian trench, an almost unfathomably deep depression caused by the bending of the Pacific Plate as it is it pulled underneath the adjacent continental plate by tectonic forces. The circular white patches of some of the volcanoes' snow-filled craters can be seen up and down the island chain.
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The white killer whale spotted in Alaska's Aleutian Islands sent researchers and the ship's crew scrambling for their cameras. The nearly mythic creature was real after all. "I had heard about this whale, but we had never been able to find it," said Holly Fearnbach, a research biologist with the National Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle who photographed the rarity. "It was quite neat to find it."
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A new documentary film, Aleut Story, includes this testimony from Bourdukofsky and other Aleuts in chronicling the little-known internment of 881 Alaska Natives from the Pribilof and Aleutian Islands during World War II. Many in the film are speaking publicly for the first time about their experiences in the camps, where they were sent after troops from Japan invaded Alaska's western outposts in June 1942.
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JUNEAU, Alaska—The Coast Guard says a fish processing boat is on fire in the Bering Sea off Alaska's Aleutian Islands. No injuries have been reported on the 253-foot Pacific Glacier, and 90 of the 106
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