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Map of Rat Islands showing major islands (line between Semisopochnoi Island and Amchitka Pass is the 180th meridian) Map of the western Aleutian Islands, showing the Rat Islands on the right: Kiska Island (7), Little Kiska Island (8), Segula Island (9), Khvostof Island (10), Davidof Island (11), Little Sitkin Island (12), Hawadax Island (13), Amchitka Island (14), and Semisopochnoi Island (15)
Baby Islands; Bird Island (Kitnamax) Bogoslof Island (Aĝasaaĝux̂) - sanctuary for sea lions and nesting marine birds; Breadloaf Island (Taanĝiinax̂) Buck Island (Ukdax̂sxix) Caton Island (Qagan Unimgix̂) Chagulak Island (Chugssĝinax̂) Alaska with Aleutian island chain (at bottom), Unalaska Island is marked. Deer Island (Animin) Derbin ...
The Aleutian Islands (/ ə ˈ l uː ʃ ən / ⓘ ə-LOO-shən; [2] [3] Russian: Алеутские острова, romanized: Aleutskiye ostrova; Aleut: Unangam Tanangin, "land of the Aleuts"; possibly from the Chukchi aliat, or "island")—also called the Aleut Islands, [4] Aleutic Islands, [5] or, before 1867, the Catherine Archipelago—are a chain of 14 main, larger volcanic islands and 55 ...
Islands of the Aleutians West Census Area — in the Aleutian Islands of southwestern Alaska. ... Near Islands (2 C, 11 P) P. Pribilof Islands (1 C, 8 P) R. Rat ...
This is a list of islands of the U.S. state of Alaska. Approximately 2,670 named islands help to make Alaska the largest state in the United States . [A] [ 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). It is part of Aleutian Islands Wilderness and as such, special permission is required to visit it. [2] The island has no permanent population.
Little Sitkin Island (Aleut: Sitignax̂; [1] Russian: Малый Ситкин) is a volcanic island in the Rat Islands archipelago of the Western Aleutian Islands, Alaska, about 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Davidof Island. Great Sitkin Island (which is essentially the same size as Little Sitkin) lies 185 miles (298 km) further east in the Andreanof ...
All are within the U.S. state of Alaska, except for the Commander Islands at the extreme western end within Russia. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Islands of Alaska . It includes islands that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.