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aleutian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Aleutian may refer to:
- The Aleut people, the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands, the Pribilof Islands, the Shumagin Islands, and the far western part of the Alaska Peninsula in Alaska and of Kamchatka Krai, Russia.
- The Aleut language, the language of the Aleut people.
- The Aleutian Islands, a chain of islands in Alaska extending 1,700 miles (2,740 km) west from the tip of the Alaskan Peninsula which separate the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean.
- The Aleutian Range, a mountain range in Alaska.
- The Aleutian Trench (or Aleutian Trough), a deep in the North Pacific Ocean at the western end of the Aleutian Islands.
- The Aleutian Disease affecting mustelids, caused by the Aleutian Disease Virus
- The Aleutian Enterprise, a factory trawler that capsized and sank in the Bering Sea due to violation of various safety measures
Usage examples of "aleutian".
Vladivostok to the Japans, then north to the Kuriles, north again to the Aleutians, at last to join with Russian Alaska that rolls down to northern California.
Oonalaska, westward of the Aleutian chain of islands and Kadiak, just south of the great Alaskan peninsula, were the two main points whence radiated the hunting flotillas for the sea-otter grounds.
The first demonstration of leapfrogging came about inadvertently, in the Aleutians.
On the fourteenth night, the I-403 surfaced near the Aleutian island of Amchitka and quickly found the supply ship Morioka anchored in a small cove.
A native of Medford, Massachusetts, Faurer graduated from West Point and spent most of his career carrying out intelligence and strategic reconnaissance assignments, commanding RB-47s in the 1950s, and taking over a surveillance squadron on the frigid Aleutian island of Shemya during the late 1960s.
Flood did not pass into America by way of the Aleutian Islands, or through the Buddhists of Asia, but were derived from an actual knowledge of Atlantis possessed by the people of America.
Laptev Sea, swept over the western Siberian mountain ranges, crossed the Kamchatka peninsula, then whipped down the Bering Sea across the Aleutians into the open ocean.
Palmer worked as an engineer at Raytheon, on the software that supported the radar station in the Aleutian Islands that monitored Russian test missiles.
It is difficult to suppose that the emigration that certainly took place from Asia into North America by the Kourile and Aleutian Islands, and still does so in our day, should have brought in these memories, since no trace is found of them among those Mongol or Siberian populations which were fused with the natives of the New World.
How else would I have learned the situation of the Kuban, Mius, and Don rivers, who could have taught me more about the Aleutian Islands, Atu, Kiska, and Adak than the radio commentaries ori the events in the Far East?
She could swim to land, to the Aleutian Islands, take shelter in a lightning-split tree, scratch for berries and nuts.
F-18 went down last night over the Bering Sea, north of the Aleutian Islands, midway between Russia and Alaska.
The closest piece of land was a tiny heap of treeless rock, one in the string of the inhospitable Aleutian Islands.
Therefore, the first autumn storm which swept down from the Aleutians upon the coast of California was ordinary and conventional.
Euclid came through another door from the dining room and the parlor beyond, where Hellbender ballplayers, from kids like me to grizzled codgers like Creighton Nutter, were listening to the news and debating the capture of Attu in the Aleutians.