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| | The Aleutian Islands War - June 3, 1942 - August 24, 1943 - ExploreNorth |
 | | He encountered no opposition on either island, but the Japanese public was in fact told that this was a great victory. | | | The cold, damp Aleutian weather was far different from the warm California beaches they had just left. | | | On 24 August 1943, Corlett declared the island secure, marking the end of the Aleutian Islands Campaign. |
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http://www.explorenorth.com/library/military/aleutian_war-usarmy.html
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| | Aleuts of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska |
| | The Pribilof Islands Stewardship Program thus began with the goal of reconnecting young Aleuts with their islands and sea. | | | The Aleuts gained more political and economic control over their islands with the passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) in 1971. | | | Once protected by its physical isolation and the secret nature of the federal fur-seal industry, today's Pribilof environment is more vulnerable to catastrophe because of the community's recent entry into the global market place. |
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http://www.amiq.org/aleuts.html
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| | Aleutian Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | After the ships were separated by a storm, Chirikov discovered several eastern islands of the Aleutian group, and Bering discovered several of the western islands, finally being wrecked and losing his life on the island of the Komandorski Islands (Commander Islands) that now bears his name (Bering Island). | | | The Russians were ruthless in their expansion, using technology and cruelty to demand tribute and labor from the Aleuts, especially for sea otter hunting. | | | The Aleutian Islands would likely be an important part of the National Missile Defense system proposed to defend the United States from small ballistic missile attacks. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleutians
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| | 6/29/2000~Sea Otters Decline Throughout the Aleutian Islands in Alaska |
| | The remnant population of sea otters in the Aleutian Islands began to grow and reoccupy their former range. | | | The Service will continue to support annual surveys to document population trends of select islands of the Aleutians; these surveys will be conducted by USGS and the Alaska Sea Otter and Steller Sea Lion Commission (TASSC), in conjunction with local tribes. | | | An estimated 6,000 sea otters remain in the Aleutian Islands today. |
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http://news.fws.gov/NewsReleases/R7/A11C3D91-AC20-11D4-A179009027B6B5D3.html
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| | 1946 Aleutian Tsunami |
| | All that remained of Scotch Cap Lighthouse on Unimak Island, Alaska after the tsunami. | | | Scotch Cap Lighthouse on Unimak Island, Alaska as it looked before the earthquake and tsunami. | | | The Hawaiian Islands were one of the hardest hit locations by the tsunami. |
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http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/general/historic/aleutian46.html
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| | Aleutian's Home Page |
| | My intent is to include links (see the Links pages) to other sites already in existence if we don't have adequate material to create a web page for the island, and where we are able to accumulate adequate material we'll build a web page on this site to host it. | | | These stories appear on this web site as they become available. | | | Many additional visitors were stationed on islands other than Shemya, including the western-most island of Attu, and Adak, Amchitka, and Umnak as well. |
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http://www.hlswilliwaw.com/aleutians
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| | Voyage to the Aleutian Islands: Understanding Alaska's Deep Sea Frontiers |
| | Expedition goals were to collect biological and substrate samples, map the sea floor, and capture video of areas never before documented. | | | (Bottom right) Samples of rock and associated invertebrates, retrieved by Jason II near Amlia Island. | | | The Aleutian Islands are home to the largest fishing port in the United States, Dutch Harbor, which for the past 15 years has held the top slot for fish and shellfish landings. |
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http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/spot_aleutian.html
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| | Road to Recovery for the Aleutian Canada Goose |
| | Aleutian Canada geese were not found on any of the islands where they historically nested and were thought to be extinct. | | | Captive-reared and translocated wild Aleutian Canada geese were released on fox-free islands. | | | Fish and Wildlife Service biologists found a remnant population on remote Buldir Island in the western Aleutian Islands. |
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http://www.utm.edu/departments/ed/cece/aleutiancanada/alendchron.shtml
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| | Alaska Oceans Program - Aleutian Islands Oil Spill |
| | Read Oceana's letter to Admiral Collins calling for a spill response risk assessment plan to protect the people and resources of the Aleutian Islands, and an op-ed published in the Anchorage Daily News. | | | From right to left - Rick Steiner, UAA Marine Advisory Program, | | | Read about the resouces at risk in the Aleutian Islands. |
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http://www.alaskaoceans.net/sao/aleutianoilspill.htm
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| | Aleutian History |
| | After their ships parted in a storm, Chirikov discovered several of the eastern islands, while Bering discovered several of the western islands. | | | The major island groups from east to west are the Fox Islands, the Islands of the Four Mountains, and the Andreanof, Rat, and Near islands. | | | During the Cold War the military stations on the Aleutian Islands were vital links in the strategic defense of the North American continent. |
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http://www.hlswilliwaw.com/aleutians/Aleutians/html/aleutian-history.htm
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| | L.L.Bean: Park Search - Aleutian Islands Biosphere Reserve and National Wildlife Refuge |
| | There are considerable World War II debris and abandoned military installations that cause the contamination of land and sea. | | | The Aleutian fauna has been described as a melting pot from two continents including some species that evolved in the Bering Sea area. | | | This bird was exterminated from other Aleutian Islands as a result of the introduction of arctic fox during the time when the islands were leased for fox farming. |
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http://www.llbean.com/parksearch/parks/html/10701gd.htm
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| | 1946 Aleutian Tsunami |
| | The most detailed, and well documented accounts of the 1946 Aleutian tsunami come from Scotch Cap, located on Unimak Island, and the Hawaiian Islands. | | | The tsunami waves produced extensive destruction along the shorelines of the Hawaiian Islands, especially at Hilo, on the big island of Hawaii, where the city's entire waterfront was destroyed. | | | The 1946 Aleutian Tsunami crossed the Pacific, producing waves up to 30 feet high in some locations at the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, and even had the power to damage fishing boats in Chile. |
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http://www.usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/alaska/1946/webpages
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| | Islands.com Aleutian Islands |
| | The best of Aleutian Islands on the Web. | | | Aleutians: Island groups & Aleut cultural map 105 | | | SIGHTSEEING Explore the world of Aleuts, who first arrived on these islands thousands of years ago, at the new Museum of the Aleutians in Unalaska. |
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http://www.islands.com/aleutians
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| | 1957 Aleutian Tsunami |
| | Even though the 1957 earthquake released more energy than the earthquake of 1946. | | | On March 9, 1957, at 14:22 GMT, an earthquake occurred south of the Andreanof Islands, in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. | | | Both the 1946 and 1957 tsunamis occurred in the same general location (the Aleutian Islands). |
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http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/general/historic/aleutian57.html
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| | Ã ÃDESCRIPTIONÄ Ä: This study included a statewide and regional historical baseline analysis and base case projections against which direct and indirect economic effects of North Aleutian Shelf region OCS petroleum development were measured. | | | Total population of the Aleutian Islands region, including military and enclave personnel, was projected to rise from 10,620 in 1981 to 25,089 in 2000 (4.6% per year). | | | The Aleutian Islands base case total population (including enclave residents and military) in 2000 was 25,089. |
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http://www.mms.gov/eppd/socecon/techsum/ak/TR-068.DOC
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| | Kodiak Management Area, ADF&G, Sport Fish Southcentral |
| | The CVB and the Kodiak Island Chamber of Commerce also have a helpful website. | | | Keeping a clean camp, throwing fish carcasses well into the stream, and makeing lots of noise when traveling through brushy areas are a few of the helpful hints that can be found in the department brochure Bear Facts. | | | Opportunities for sport fishing on Kodiak Island are summarized in the Kodiak Island Sport Fishing Brochure. |
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http://www.sf.adfg.state.ak.us/Region2/areas/kodiak/kodhome.cfm
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| | Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association |
| | According to some archeologists, the Aleut people inhabited the Aleutian Islands for over 70 centuries. | | | Aleutian World War II National Historic Area established in Unalaska/Dutch Harbor | | | Massacre of Russians on Umnak Island by Aleuts |
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http://www.apiai.com/history.asp?page=history
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| | Southwest Alaska - Aleutian Islands |
| | The Aleutians were strategically important during World War II in preventing Japanese invasion of the U.S. mainland. | | | Japanese forces occupied the islands of Attu and Kiska in 1942, and traces of this era are still evident throughout the islands. | | | Russian influences began in the 1740's when fur traders descended upon the islands to secure sea otter pelts. |
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http://www.southwestalaska.com/aleutian
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| | Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Aleutian Islands tundra (NA1102) |
| | The Pribilof Islands are home to virtually all of the world's 250,000 red-legged kittiwakes. | | | These islands, formed by volcanoes over many thousands of years, range in elevation from sea level to over 6,200 feet (1,900 m). | | | Many of the Aleutian Islands support plants and animals found nowhere else in the world, such as the Pribilof Islands shrew and the Aleutian shield fern, the only federally listed endangered plant in Alaska. |
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http://www.nationalgeographic.com/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/na/na1102.html
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| | USAF Museum - WWII Combat Pacific - The Aleutian Campaign 1942-1943 |
| | In May 1943, American forces seized Attu and on July 10 the AAF began using it as a base for raids against the Kurile Islands. | | | Bombing raids against the Kuriles were limited, although the presence of American forces immobilized substantial numbers of enemy aircraft as a defense against a major attack on the northern Japanese islands which never came. | | | As a diversionary move in conjunction with their strike against Midway, the Japanese in June 1942 bombed Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Island chain and landed troops on Kiska and Attu islands. |
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http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/wwii/cp10.htm
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| | Aleutian Islands |
| | The Aleutian Islands have a very interesting history, especially back in WW II when several of the islands were actually occupied by the Japanese. | | | This wasn't a "ship-sponsored" tour but rather one that Mara had investigated ahead of time on the Internet and talked her friends into joining. | | | each of the 6 islands in the order they were visited, |
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http://www.ssqq.com/archive/logicpuzzle25.htm
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| | Aleutian Islands |
| | At the time of the seizure, the United States did not have available ships, planes, and troops to recapture the islands, but advanced airfields were established on Adak and Amchitka, in August 1942, from which American bombers attacked Kiska and Attu. | | | To the surprise of the Allies, they found that the island had been secretly evacuated by the Japanese under cover of heavy summer fogs which had prevented aerial observation or interception. | | | Japanese seizure of Attu, Kiska, and Agattu of the Aleutian Islands in June 1942 was strategically unimportant, but the occupied islands did provide the Japanese with a base for raiding Alaska and limiting air and sea operations in the North Pacific. |
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http://www.worldwar2history.info/Aleutians
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| | Aleutians East Borough -- Welcome to the Aleutians East Borough |
| | , the Aleutians East Borough is like no other place on earth. | | | Aleutians East Borough assembly votes to formally support offshore gas and oil development | | | Aleutians East Borough officially opposes processor quota shares |
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http://www.aleutianseast.org
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| | CNN.com - U.S. helicopter crew safe after crash - Dec 9, 2004 |
| | The HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter had evacuated 18 members of the 26-member crew from the Selendang Ayu when it went down near Unalaska Island, according to Coast Guard spokesman Cmdr. Jeff Carter. | | | The helicopter crew was attempting to rescue members from a stranded freighter when it went down. | | | Officials said conditions were turbulent at the time of the crash. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/09/copter.crash
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| | The Nature Conservancy Migratory Bird Program - Aleutian Islands |
| | Like emerald stepping-stones set across the Pacific, the Aleutian Islands rise from the sea. | | | Nearly every year, Asian species make their first North American appearance on the island. | | | Nesting birds crowd the island rookeries — pelagic and red-faced cormorants of the snaky necks; black-legged and red-legged kittiwakes that cling like barnacles; horned and tufted puffins that look like footballs with food-processor blades in flight. |
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http://nature.org/initiatives/programs/birds/animals/aleutianislands.html
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| | Research reports for Alaska Fisheries Science Center's RACE Division for July-Sept 2002 |
| | Previous major Aleutian Islands groundfish surveys occurred in 1980, ‘83, ‘86, ‘91, ‘94, ‘97, and 2000. | | | Gear, as well as biological and effort data collection methods used during the trawl sampling phase, were similar to those used on the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands biennial bottom trawl surveys. | | | A video transect of the bottom along the path of each sampled site was conducted as time allowed. |
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http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/Quarterly/jas2002/divrptsRACE1.htm
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| | The Aleutian Islands |
| | As the crust is pulled deep into the earth, it starts to melt and some of the melted crust rises back to the surface, penetrating it in the form of volcanoes. | | | This image was obtained from the USGS's Volcanoes of the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands--Selected Photographs. | | | This photograph, taken by Chris Nye of the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, shows the volcanic Mount Gilbert on the northern end of Akun Island in the eastern Aleutians. |
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http://www.nationalatlas.gov/articles/geology/features/aleutians.html
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| | Volcanoes: Semisopochnoi, Aleutian Islands |
| | Sugarloaf Peak (center), on the southeast coast of Semisopochnoi Island, is the... | | | Semisopochnoi, the youngest volcanic island in the western Aleutians, made of a shield volcano, a caldera, and several younger stratovolcanoes. | | | You can log in now using this convenient form or you can create a new account. |
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http://www.redtailcanyon.com/items/14080.aspx
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| | Aleutian Islands - Attu |
| | Attu is the largest (896 km²) member of the Near Islands group, situated at the western end of the Aleutian chain, 725 km east of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East. | | | It is separated from the rest of the Near Islands (Agattu and the Semichi Islands) by the Agattu Strait, with Agattu being 35 km to the southeast. | | | The island, which has a mountainous interior rising to 860 m, measures 56 km in length (east to west) and is up to 32 km in width. |
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http://www.oceandots.com/pacific/aleutian/attu.htm
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| | Crab Fishery Management - Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Alaska |
| | Crab fisheries in the BSAI are managed under the Federal Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands King and Tanner Crab. | | | Species Profile: King and Tanner Crabs of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Area | | | Crab Fishery Management - Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Alaska |
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http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/sustainablefisheries/crab
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| | Aleut - Arctic Studies Center |
| | Aleut settlements were, as a rule, located on bays where there was a good gravel beach for landing skin-covered watercraft. | | | Click in the left side of the picture for the previous culture, or on the right for the next mannequin. | | | he Aleut, or Unangan, as they call themselves, inhabit the Aleutian archipelago, a 1,300-mile-long volcanic island arc extending from the Alaska Peninsula west nearly to Kamchatka. |
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http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/croads/aleut.html
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| | Garmin: Cartography - BlueChart - Card: Aleutian Islands, JUL 05 |
| | Covers the Aleutian Islands from Attu Island to Cold Bay, including Adak Station and Unalaska. | | | Also covers the Pribilof Islands, including St. Paul Island and St. George Island. | | | Please go to the BlueChart CD-ROM page if you wish to purchase BlueChart data on CD-ROM. |
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http://www.garmin.com/cartography/bluechart/card.jsp?sku=MUS034R
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| | alaska map and information page |
| | The Aleutian Island chain stretches west across the Bering Sea to the Russian Federation border. | | | (1942) Japanese invade the Aleutian Islands of Attu and Kiska | | | Origin of Name It's a Russian version of an Aleutian Indian name, Alyeska, meaning peninsula, or great land. |
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http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/usstates/ak.htm
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| | Movie Library: Aleutian Islands |
| | description: Heavily Trawled seafloor in Seguam Pass, Aleutian Islands | | | description: 7-minute film on the 2002 coral gardens discovery in the Aleutians. | | | Visit the NOAA website and watch this movie |
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http://www.savecorals.com/aleutians/movies.html
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