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Alexander Archipelago

The Alexander Archipelago is a 300-mile-long archipelago in lying off the southeastern coast of . It contains about 1,100 islands, the tops of submerged coastal mountains that rise steeply from the Pacific Ocean.
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  • Type: Archipelago
  • Description: archipelago in Alaska, United States
  • Also known as: “Indian Arkipelagan”, “Indianischen Archipel”, and “Kaloschen Archipel”

Alexander Archipelago

Latitude
56.8° or 56° 48′ north
Longitude
-133.85° or 133° 51′ west
Elevation
1,480 feet (451 metres)
Open location code
9488R522+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6227310786
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­archipelago
Geo­Names ID
5844324
Wiki­data ID
Q140510
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Satellite Map

Discover Alexander Archipelago from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Alexander Archipelago” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أرخبيل ألكسندر”
  • Armenian: “Ալեքսանդրի կղզեխումբ”
  • Asturian: “Archipiélagu Alexander”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aleksandr arxipelaqı”
  • Basque: “Alexander artxipelagoa”
  • Basque: “Alexander uhartedia”
  • Belarusian: “Аляксандра архіпелаг”
  • Belarusian: “Архіпелаг Аляксандра”
  • Bulgarian: “Александър”
  • Catalan: “arxipèlag Alexander”
  • Catalan: “Arxipèlag Alexander”
  • Cebuano: “Alexander Archipelago”
  • Chinese: “亚历山大群岛”
  • Chinese: “亞歷山大群島”
  • Czech: “Alexandrovy ostrovy”
  • Danish: “Alexanderarkipelaget”
  • Dutch: “Alexanderarchipel”
  • Esperanto: “Aleksandera Arkipelago”
  • Esperanto: “Aleksandra Arkipelago”
  • Esperanto: “Aleksandra Insularo”
  • Estonian: “Aleksandri saared”
  • Estonian: “Aleksandri saarestik”
  • Finnish: “Alexander Archipelago”
  • Finnish: “Alexander-saaristo”
  • Finnish: “Alexanderin saaristo”
  • Finnish: “Alexandersaaret”
  • Finnish: “Alexandersaarist”
  • Finnish: “Alexandersaaristo”
  • French: “Archipel Alexander”
  • French: “archipel Alexandre”
  • French: “Archipel Alexandre”
  • Galician: “Arquipélago Alexander”
  • Galician: “Arquipélago de Alexander”
  • Georgian: “ალექსანდრას არქიპელაგი”
  • Georgian: “ალექსანდრეს არქიპელაგი”
  • German: “Alexander Archipelago”
  • German: “Alexander-Archipel”
  • German: “Alexanderarchipel”
  • Greek: “Αλεξάνδρου Αρχιπέλαγος”
  • Greek: “Αρχιπέλαγος Αλεξάντερ”
  • Greek: “Αρχιπέλαγος του Αλέξανδρου”
  • Hebrew: “ארכיפלג אלכסנדר”
  • Hungarian: “Alexander-szigetek”
  • Indonesian: “Kepulauan Alexander”
  • Italian: “Arcipelago Alessandro”
  • Japanese: “アリグザンダー諸島”
  • Japanese: “アレキサンダー諸島”
  • Japanese: “アレクサンダー諸島”
  • Japanese: “アレグザンダー諸島”
  • Kazakh: “Александр архипелагы”
  • Korean: “알렉산더 제도”
  • Latvian: “Aleksandra arhipelāgs”
  • Lithuanian: “Aleksandro salynas”
  • Macedonian: “Александров Архипелаг”
  • Macedonian: “Александровски Архипелаг”
  • Malayalam: “അലക്സാണ്ടർ ദ്വീപസമൂഹം”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alexanderøyene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alexanderarkipelet”
  • Norwegian: “Alexanderøyene”
  • Persian: “مجمع‌الجزایر الکساندر”
  • Polish: “Archipelag Aleksandra”
  • Portuguese: “Arquipélago Alexander”
  • Portuguese: “Arquipélago Alexandre”
  • Portuguese: “Arquipélago de Alexander”
  • Portuguese: “Arquipélago de Alexandre”
  • Russian: “Александра архипелаг”
  • Russian: “Александровский архипелаг”
  • Russian: “Архипелаг Александра”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alexander”
  • Slovak: “Alexandrove ostrovy”
  • Slovenian: “Aleksandrov arhipelag”
  • Slovenian: “Alexander Archipelago”
  • Spanish: “Archipiélago Alexander”
  • Swedish: “Alexanderarkipelagen”
  • Thai: “กลุ่มเกาะอะเล็กซานเดอร์”
  • Turkish: “Alexander Takımadaları”
  • Ukrainian: “Архіпелаг Олександра”
  • Uzbek: “Aleksandr arxipelagi”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Alexander”
  • Western Frisian: “Aleksanderarsjipel”
  • Wu Chinese: “亚历山大群岛”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Alexander Archipelago”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.