The Japanese planned on attacking the Aleutian Islands to combat the "island hopping" strategy that Douglas MacArthur was using in the Pacific Ocean.
The United Kingdom owns Turks and Caicos Islands.
The name, Alaska, is a native word meaning "mainland" which distinguishes it from the many Aleutian islands where the people whose lives were tied to the sea lived.
The people. Exceprt from Lincoln's Gettysburg address puts it nicely: "that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
People of one nation who are citizens of another nation are called aliens.
The chain of islands is the = Aleutian Islands =
The Aleutian Islands.
The Aleutian Island Chain is the name of the islands off of the South Western coast of Alaska.
Aleutian Islands
No nation 'owns' any territory on the Antarctic continent.
An Aleutian is someone who is native to the Aleutian Islands. The Aleutian Islands consist of approximately 300 islands located in the northern Pacific Ocean. Part of the islands belong to Russia and part of the islands are part of Alaska. The U.S. population was 8,162 in 2000.
The Aleutian Islands stretch from Alaska to Russia
Aleutian Islands Wilderness was created in 1980.
The Aleutian Islands were formed by the collision of tectonic plates. The islands lie along the boundary where the Pacific Plate is being pushed beneath the North American Plate in a process known as subduction. This tectonic activity has led to the creation of a chain of volcanic islands.
The Aleutian Islands are part of Alaska
A chain of 14 large volcanic islands and 55 smaller ones form the Aleutian Islands.
An Aleutian Islander is a native or resident of the Aleutian Islands, an archipelago of around 300 islands in the Pacific Ocean.