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/əˈljuːʃən/
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“russian” –>
Алеутские острова
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“aleut” –>
tanam unangaa
(literally “land of the aleuts”)
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(possibly from chukchi aliat –> “island”)
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also called…
*the aleut islands*
*the aleutic islands*
*known before ‘1867’ as the “catherine archipelago”*
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(the aleutian islands are a chain of ’14 large volcanic islands’ + ’55 smaller ones’ belonging to both the american state of ‘alaska’ and the russian federal subject of ‘kamchatka krai’)
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(they form part of the ‘aleutian arc’ in the ‘northern pacific ocean’, occupying an area of ‘6,821 square miles’ (/ 17,666 square kilometers) and extending about ‘1,200 miles’ (/ ‘1,900 kilometers) westward from the ‘alaska peninsula’ toward the ‘kamchatka peninsula’ in ‘russia’, and mark a dividing line between the ‘bering sea’ to the north and the ‘pacific ocean’ to the ‘south’)
(crossing longitude 180°, at which point ‘east’ + ‘west’ longitude end, the ‘archipelago’ contains both the westernmost part of the ‘united states’ by longitude (‘amatignak island’) and the easternmost by longitude (‘semisopochnoi island’))
(the westernmost american island in ‘real terms’, however, is ‘attu island’, west of which runs the ‘international date line’)
(while nearly all the ‘archipelago’ is part of ‘alaska’ and is usually considered as being in the “alaskan bush”, at the extreme western end, the ‘small’ + ‘geologically related’ commander islands belong to ‘russia’)
(the islands (with their ’57 volcanoes’) form the northernmost part of the ‘pacific ring of fire’)
(physiographically, they are a distinct section of the larger ‘pacific border province’, which in turn is part of the larger ‘pacific mountain system’ physiographic division)
(these islands are most known for the ‘battles’ + ‘skirmishes’ that occurred there during the ‘aleutian islands campaign’ of ‘world war 2’)
(the japanese landings + occupations of ‘kiska’ + ‘attu’ in ‘june 1942’ were the only 2 foreign invasions of the ‘united states’ during that war)
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