Attu Island - Wikipedia
Attu (Aleut: Atan, [1] Russian: Атту) is an island in the Near Islands (part of the Aleutian Islands chain). It is one of the westernmost points of the U.S. state of Alaska. The island became uninhabited in 2010, making it the largest uninhabited island that is part of …
Aleutian Islands - Wikipedia
The westernmost U.S. island, in real terms, however, is Attu Island, west of which runs the International Date Line. The Aleutian Islands, with their 57 volcanoes, form the northernmost part of the Pacific Ring of Fire.
This Island is the Westernmost Point of the United States
2020年10月10日 · The westernmost part of the United States by longitude is Amatignak Island (51°15′44″N 179°06′31″W) and the easternmost by longitude is Semisopochnoi Island (51°57′05″N 179°36′03″E).
Aleutian Islands | History, Climate, & Facts | Britannica
2024年10月18日 · Aleutian Islands, chain of islands that separate the Bering Sea (north) from the main portion of the Pacific Ocean (south). They extend in an arc southwest, then northwest, for about 1,100 miles (1,800 km) from the tip of the Alaska Peninsula to Attu Island, Alaska.
Attu Island, Alaska - NASA Earth Observatory
Attu Island is so far west, it’s actually in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is the westernmost of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, even farther west than the Hawaiian Islands. At roughly 32 by 56 kilometers (20 by 35 miles), the island lies roughly 1,700 kilometers (1,100 miles) from mainland Alaska.
Attu Homepage - Attu Island
Attu, the westernmost piece of American territory and largest island in the Aleutian Islands’ Near Islands grouping, is nearly 1,100 miles from the Alaskan mainland and 750 miles northeast of the northernmost of Russia’s Kurile Islands, and 4,800 miles from Washington DC. Attu is about 20 by 35 miles in size, the highest elevation being
Attu Island - Alaska Guide Co
the westernmost of Near Islands, the farthest W of Aleutian Islands. 37 miles long. 344.7 square miles in size. Attu, although possibly seen by one or both of the 1741 expedition ships from a great distance, was officially discovered and called "Saint Theodore" by Captain A. I. Chirikov in the spring of 1742 (Bancroft, 1886, p. 93).
Attuans' WWII Experience - Aleutian Islands World War II …
Villagers of Attu Island, the westernmost island in the Aleutians, had a different and especially tragic wartime experience. Attuans were known as particularly skilled basket weavers. Attu Island is the westernmost island within the Aleutian Island chain.
Attu: A Land of Contrast - Stowaway Magazine
2021年11月1日 · Near the end of the Aleutian Island chain, nearly 1,100 miles away from the Alaskan mainland and at the westernmost point of the United States, lies Attu island. This barren, treeless island has been uninhabited since 2010.
Attu’s Lost Village: Descendants of Aleut Community Relocated …
As Alaska’s westernmost Aleutian Island came into view, Theresa Deal recalled, “I was getting chills.” Aboard a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) research vessel, Deal was among the 11 passengers who in 2017 were the first Aleut people to step foot on Attu—or Atux̂as as they call the island—since World War II.