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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.
The Battle of Attu (codenamed Operation Landcrab), [4] which took place on 11–30 May 1943, was fought between forces of the United States, aided by Canadian reconnaissance and fighter-bomber support, and Japan on Attu Island off the coast of the Territory of Alaska as part of the Aleutian Islands campaign during the American Theater and the Pacific Theater.
The Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (often shortened to Alaska Maritime or AMNWR) is a United States National Wildlife Refuge comprising 2,400 islands, headlands, rocks, islets, spires and reefs in Alaska, with a total area of 4.9 million acres (20,000 km 2), of which 2.64 million acres (10,700 km 2) is wilderness.
The team of divers was training in the giant kelp forests of eastern Santa Cruz Island in California’s Channel Islands National Park. ... video shows. A sleepy sea creature naps on the shores of ...
Aug. 13—Dominic Bush studies WWII battle at Attu Island Dominic Bush slid on blue surgical gloves and pulled out a black-and-white photo negative from a beige envelope at the Anchorage Museum ...
The largest of those is Unimak Island, with an area of 1,571.41 mi 2 (4,069.9 km 2), followed by Unalaska Island, the only other Aleutian Island with an area over 1,000 square miles (2,600 km 2). The axis of the archipelago near the mainland of Alaska has a southwest trend, but at Tanaga Island (about 178° W) its direction changes to the ...
[1] [2] Although algal kelp forest combined with coral reefs only cover 0.1% of Earth's total surface, they account for 0.9% of global primary productivity. [3] Kelp forests occur worldwide throughout temperate and polar coastal oceans. [1] In 2007, kelp forests were also discovered in tropical waters near Ecuador. [4]
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