Aleutian Islands
Speech parts
1. Aleutian Islands - Noun
2. Aleutian Islands - Proper noun
Meaning
an archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwest from Alaska
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Examples
Aconitum poisons were used by the Aleuts of Alaska 's Aleutian Islands for hunting whales.
Adverse conditions forced Bering to return, but he documented some of the Aleutian Islands on his way back.
After his crew returned to Russia with sea otter pelts judged to be the finest fur in the world, small associations of fur traders began to sail from the shores of Siberia toward the Aleutian Islands.
Anacapa was also withdrawn from Q-ship duty in 1943 and served out the remainder of WWII as an armed transport in the South Pacific and Aleutian Islands.
Army planes based in Alaska destroyed seven Japanese seaplanes and damaged two cargo vessels in the western reaches of the Aleutian Islands, the Navy said.
Bering himself was forced by adverse conditions to return, and he discovered some of the Aleutian Islands on his way back.