Aleutian Islands
The Aleutian Islands are a chain of island to the west of Southwestern Alaska. It is a volcanic region, part of the Pacific Ring of Fire.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Unalaska and Adak.
Unalaska
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Unalaska is a city on the Aleutian Islands of Unalaska and Amaknak. The part of the city on Amaknak Island is known as Dutch Harbor. It is the eleventh largest city in Alaska and has 4,400 residents.
Adak
Photo: Mudflattop, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Adak is a small town in the Aleutian Islands region of Alaska. The main reasons for visiting are bird watching, fishing and hunting.
Aleutian Islands
- Type: Island with 8,160 residents
- Description: chain of islands in the Northern Pacific
- Also known as: “Aleotskia Isles”, “Aleoutiennes”, “Aleutian Archipelago”, “Aleutian Isles”, “Aleutians”, “Aleutskie Ostrova”, “Aleutskii Arkhipelag”, “Billy Mitchell Islands”, “Las Aleutianas”, and “Ugaassat”
- Historically known as: “Catherina Archipelago”, “Catherine Archipelago”, “Catherine’s Archipelago”, and “Katerina Archipelago”
- Categories: chain of islands and volcanic arc
- Location: Southwestern Alaska, Alaska, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Aleutian Islands” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Aleoete-eilande”
- Afrikaans: “Aleoetiese Eilande”
- Arabic: “الجزر الأليوطية”
- Arabic: “جزر الالوتيان”
- Armenian: “Ալեության կղզիներ”
- Armenian: “Ալեուտյան կղզիներ”
- Asturian: “Islles Aleutianes”
- Azerbaijani: “Aleut adaları”
- Basque: “Aleutiar uharteak”
- Basque: “Aleutiarrak”
- Bavarian: “Aleutn”
- Belarusian: “Алеуцкія астравы”
- Belarusian: “Алеўцкія астравы”
- Bengali: “অ্যালিউশিয়ান দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
- Bengali: “অ্যালেউট দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
- Bengali: “আলেউটিক দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
- Bengali: “ক্যাথেরিন দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
- Bishnupriya: “অ্যালিউশিয়ান দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
- Bosnian: “Aleuti”
- Bosnian: “Aleutska ostrva”
- Breton: “Inizi Aleout”
- Breton: “Inizi an Aleouted”
- Bulgarian: “Алеутски острови”
- Burmese: “အလူးရှင်းကျွန်း”
- Catalan: “Aleutianes”
- Catalan: “Arxipèlag de les Aleutianes”
- Catalan: “illes Aleutianes”
- Catalan: “Illes Aleutianes”
- Cebuano: “Aleutian Islands”
- Central Kurdish: “دوورگەکانی ئەلووشن”
- Chechen: “Алеутийн гӀайренаш”
- Chinese: “Aleutian Kûn-tó”
- Chinese: “阿留申群岛”
- Chinese: “阿留申群島”
- Chuvash: “Алеут утравӗсем”
- Croatian: “Aleutski otoci”
- Croatian: “Aleutsko otočje”
- Czech: “Aleutské ostrovy”
- Czech: “Aleuty”
- Danish: “Aleuterne”
- Dutch: “Aleoeten”
- Dutch: “Aleoetische regio”
- Dutch: “Aleutian Islands”
- Dutch: “Catharina-archipel”
- Esperanto: “Aleuta Insularo”
- Esperanto: “Aleutaj Insuloj”
- Esperanto: “Aleŭtaj insuloj”
- Esperanto: “Aleŭtoj”
- Estonian: “Aleuudi saared”
- Estonian: “Aleuudid”
- Extremaduran: “Islas Aleutianas”
- Faroese: “Aleutoyggjar”
- Finnish: “Aleutit”
- Finnish: “Aleuttien saaret”
- French: “Aléoutiennes”
- French: “Archipel des Aléoutes”
- French: “Iles Aleoutiennes”
- French: “Iles Aléoutiennes”
- French: “îles Aléoutiennes”
- French: “Îles Aléoutiennes”
- Galician: “Aleutas”
- Galician: “Aleutianas”
- Galician: “Illas Aleutianas”
- Georgian: “ალეუტის კუნძულები”
- German: “Aleuten”
- German: “Alëuten”
- Greek: “Αλεούτιες νήσοι”
- Hebrew: “האיים האלאוטיים”
- Hebrew: “האיים האלאוטים”
- Hindi: “अल्यूत द्वीपसमूह”
- Hungarian: “Aleut-szigetek”
- Icelandic: “Aleuteyjar”
- Icelandic: “Aleúteyjar”
- Icelandic: “Aljútaeyjar”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Aleut”
- Irish: “Oileáin Ailiúit”
- Italian: “Aleutine”
- Italian: “Arcipelago delle Aleutine”
- Italian: “Isole Aleutine”
- Japanese: “アリューシャン”
- Japanese: “アリューシャン列島”
- Japanese: “アリューシャン諸島”
- Kannada: “ಅಲ್ಯೂಷಿಯನ್ ದ್ವೀಪಗಳು”
- Kazakh: “Alewt araldarı”
- Kazakh: “Алеут аралдары”
- Kazakh: “الەۋت ارالدارى”
- Kirghiz: “Алеут аралдары”
- Korean: “알류산 열도”
- Korean: “알류샨 열도”
- Korean: “알류샨 제도”
- Latin: “Insulae Aleutiae”
- Latvian: “Aleutian islands”
- Latvian: “Aleutu salas”
- Lithuanian: “Aleutų salos”
- Macedonian: “Алеути”
- Macedonian: “Алеутски Острови”
- Malay: “Kepulauan Aleut”
- Malayalam: “അല്യൂഷ്യൻ ദ്വീപുകൾ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Aleutian Kûn-tó”
- Northern Frisian: “Aleuten”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aleut”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aleutene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aleutane”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aleutene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aleutian Islands”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aleutskije ostrova”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Алеутские острова”
- Norwegian: “Aleutene”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Illas Aleutianas”
- Ossetian: “Алеутаг сакъадæхтæ”
- Ossetian: “Алеуты сакъадæхтæ”
- Persian: “جزایر آلیوتی”
- Persian: “جزایر الوشن”
- Polish: “Aleuty”
- Polish: “Archipelag Aleutów”
- Polish: “Rezerwat Biosfery Aleutów”
- Polish: “Wyspy Aleuckie”
- Portuguese: “Aleutas”
- Portuguese: “Aleútas”
- Portuguese: “Arquipélago dos aleutas”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Aleutas”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Aleútes”
- Romanian: “Aleutine”
- Romanian: “Insulele Aleutine”
- Russian: “Алеутские острова”
- Russian: “Архипелаг Екатерины”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Na h-Eileanan Aleutianach”
- Serbian: “Aleutska ostrva”
- Serbian: “Алеутска острва”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Aleutska ostrva”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Aleutski arhipelag”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Aleutski otoci”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Aleutsko otočje”
- Sindhi: “اليوشيئن ٻيٽ”
- Slovak: “Aleutské ostrovy”
- Slovak: “Aleuty”
- Slovenian: “Aleuti”
- Slovenian: “Aleutski otoki”
- Spanish: “Aleutian Islands”
- Spanish: “Aleutianas”
- Spanish: “Islas Aleutianas”
- Spanish: “Islas Aleutinas”
- Swahili: “Visiwa vya Aleuti”
- Swedish: “Aleuterna”
- Swedish: “Aleutiska öarna”
- Swedish: “Aluet”
- Swiss German: “D Inselgrubbe vo de Aleute”
- Tajik: “Алеут”
- Tamil: “அலூசியன் தீவுகள்”
- Tatar: “Алеут утраулары”
- Thai: “Aleutian Islands”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะอะลูเชียน”
- Tosk Albanian: “Aleuten”
- Turkish: “Aleut Adaları”
- Turkish: “Aleutian adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Алеутські острови”
- Uzbek: “Aleut orollari”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Aleut”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Aleutia”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Aleutian”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kapurupod-an Aleutian”
- Western Frisian: “Aleoeten”
- Wu Chinese: “阿留申群岛”
- Yue Chinese: “阿留申群島”
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