Aleutian Islands
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The Aleutian Islands —also called the Aleut Islands, Aleutic Islands, or, before the Alaska Purchase in 1867, the Catherine Archipelago—are a chain of 14 main, larger volcanic islands and 55 smaller o
Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Islands
Image of the islands taken by the STS-56 crew. Amlia Island is visible in the upper left of the photo, while the eastern half of Atka Island is shown at the right. North is to the bottom left in this photo.
These cloud formations were seen over the western Aleutian Islands.
ASTER image of the islands
Aleuts
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Aleuts are the Indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands, which are located between the North Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea. Both the Aleuts and the islands are politically divided between the U.S.
Attu Aleut mother and child, 1941
Customary Aleut dress
Aleuts. Ethnographic description of the peoples of the Russian Empire by Gustav-Fyodor Khristianovich Pauli (1862)
Men's chagudax, or bentwood hunting visor, Arvid Adolf Etholén collection, Museum of Cultures, Helsinki, Finland