a member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska
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of or relating to the Aleut or their language or culture
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Aleutian \A*leu"tian\, Aleutic \A*leu"tic\, a. [Said to be from the Russ. aleut a bold rock.] Of or pertaining to a chain of islands between Alaska and Kamtchatka; also, designating these islands.
Aleutian \Aleutian\ n. 1. a member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands.
Syn: Aleut [WordNet 1.5]
It's just a ragged clump of stunted spruce, but the Adak National Forest is nothing short of inspirational to foresters who dream of covering the desolate Aleutian Islands with trees.
The tremor registered about 5.8 on the Richter scale at 1:42 a.m. AST and was centered beneath the ocean 20 miles northeast of Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands, said Alec Medbery of the Alaska Tsunami Warning Center.
The earthquake was felt at Shemya Air Force Base, near Attu in the sparsely populated Aleutian chain, but was not large enough to generate a tidal wave, also called a tsunami, officials said.
The vessel is owned by Aleutian Enterprise Ltd., a California-based partnership that contracts with Arctic Alaska for management and marketing services, Roberts said.
In the spring of 1943, U.S. forces prepared to retake the two Aleutian islands and the decision was made to attack the smaller base at Attu.
About six fishing vessels were in the area and had assisted in the rescue and search, said Dan Roberts, executive vice president of Arctic Alaska Fisheries Corp., which manages the Aleutian Enterprise for a partnership that owns it.
"I'm working out an alternate plan right now, through the Aleutian chain through Attu, towards Japan.
Chronicle Editor Jack Loftis said, "I will miss him as a professional journalist and as a good friend." A native of Painesville, Ohio, Chriss entered the Army upon graduation during World War II, and was stationed in the Aleutian Islands.
While largely similar to the version passed by the House on a 243-141 vote last September, the Senate version also provides a multimillion-dollar package for Aleut Indians moved from the Aleutian Islands off Alaska during a Japanese attack in 1942.
The crab processing ship, the 320-foot Coastal Star, was anchored off the island about 425 miles north of the Aleutian Islands.
The eclipse will be total in an arc about 125 miles wide from the northern Baltic Sea and southeast Finland, across the Kola Peninsula and northeast Soviet Union, to the Aleutian Islands near Alaska.
The ferries sail around the clock along a 3,500-mile route, from Seattle up Alaska's Inside Passage and out a separate run across Prince William Sound and along the Aleutian Islands chain.
They were fishing about 400 miles southwest of Kiska Island near the end of the Aleutian chain, in waters where driftnets likely would intercept salmon from North America.
Biehl was drafted into the Army and was serving in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska when the Army learned he was a fugitive from Ohio.
Russians planted the first trees in 1805 near the eastern Aleutian village of Unalaska; a few still survive and enjoy National Historic Landmark status.
In 1985 a 24-year-old college student from the Lower 48 wrote a sad tale of losing _ and finding _ a skiff while crab fishing in the Aleutian Islands.
Earlier Sunday, the Alaksa Tsunami Warning Center reported two moderate earthquakes in an area southeast of Adak in the Aleutian Islands.
Twenty-two crew members were rescued Thursday after the 162-foot Seattle-based Aleutian Enterprise sank about 60 miles south of the remote Pribilof Islands town of St. Paul, Coast Guard spokesman Christopher Haley said in Juneau.
A strong earthquake jolted Shemya Air Force Base in the Aleutian Islands.