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Aleutian Islands
plural noun
- an archipelago extending SW from the Alaska Peninsula: part of Alaska.
Aleutian Islands
plural noun
- a chain of over 150 volcanic islands, extending southwestwards from the Alaska Peninsula between the N Pacific and the Bering Sea
Aleutian Islands
- Chain of volcanic ( see volcano ) islands off western Alaska between the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean .
Example Sentences
Along the West Coast, marbled murrelets are found regularly from Santa Cruz, California, to the Aleutian Islands.
For instance, song sparrows that live year-round in the Aleutian Islands can be up to three times larger than their counterparts in the coastal marshes of California.
A federal fishery agency reported this week that 10 killer whales were caught in the gear of trawl net vessels fishing this year in the Bering Sea and North Pacific waters off the Aleutian Islands.
The Russian-Chinese warships also circled part of the Aleutian Islands archipelago.
The comments followed the deployment of 11 Chinese and Russian warships in a joint task force that sailed near Alaska’s Aleutian Islands recently, prompting criticism from Republican lawmakers.
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