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The name Attu is the Unangan language (Aleut) name for the island. Research of the large number of archaeological sites on the island suggests an estimated precontact population ranging from 2,000 to 5,000 Unangan (Aleut). [6] Attu, being the nearest of the Aleutian Islands to Kamchatka, was the first of the islands exploited by Russian traders.
Attu Airport terminal. Casco Cove Coast Guard Station (IATA: ATU [2], ICAO: PAAT, FAA LID: ATU) was a military facility and private use airfield on Attu Island, one of the Aleutian Islands in the U.S. state of Alaska. [1] Owned by the United States Coast Guard, [1] Casco Cove CGS is located 1,481 miles (2,383 km) west of Anchorage, Alaska.
Chichagof Harbor is an inlet on the northeast coast of the island of Attu in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. [2] It is named after Russian Admiral and polar explorer Vasily Chichagov . It was the location of an Aleut village served by an American pastor and his wife.
Map of the western Aleutian Islands, showing the Near Islands on the left: Attu Island (1), Agattu Island (2), Alaid Island (3), Nizki Island (4), and Shemya Island (5). The Near Islands or Sasignan Islands (Aleut: Sasignan tanangin, [1] Russian: Ближние острова) are a group of American islands in the Aleutian Islands in southwestern Alaska, between the Russian Commander Islands ...
Attu Station is a census-designated place (CDP) located on Attu Island in the Aleutians West Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska.The population was 21 at the 2010 census, [4] consisting entirely of coast guard personnel who resided and worked at Casco Cove Coast Guard Station, but left the island when the station was closed in August 2010, leaving it uninhabited.
Golodoff was the last survivor among 41 residents imprisoned in Japan after Japanese troops captured remote Attu Island during World War II. He was 3 when the island was taken. “The eldest ...
Kiska is shown as Island #7; Attu Island is shown as Island #1. Kiska ( Aleut : Qisxa , [ 1 ] Russian : Кыска ) is one of the Rat Islands , a group of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska . It is about 22 miles (35 km ) long and varies in width from 1.5 to 6 miles (2.4 to 9.7 km).
The Battle of Attu, the primary land battle in the Aleutian Islands campaign of World War II, which took place on Attu Island in May 1943. Attu Station, Alaska, a LORAN station on Attu Island; Attu (Greenland), a settlement in western Greenland; Attu, a 2017 Indian gangster film; An extinct dialect of the Aleut language; An island in Pargas ...