There’s a remote island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that most people have never heard of. Once part of the Russian ...

Part of the Aleutian Islands, a 1,100-mile volcanic archipelago that curves in a westward arc to within 600 miles of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, Unalaska features one of the harshest ...

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The team's decade-long effort to study mercury in Steller sea lions in the Aleutian Islands—the strip of islands stretching between Russia and Alaska and separating the Bering Sea and Pacific ...

With their close proximity to Japan, the Aleutian Islands seemed especially prone to an attack. Stretching westward into the Pacific Ocean, the chain of roughly 150 islands lay just 750 miles away ...

About half of those residents were Native Alaskans, members of indigenous groups who inhabited Alaska before it was colonized by Russia ... lived in the Aleutian Islands off the coast of mainland ...

As relations between the US and Russia come under increased international focus, we explore a windswept, geologically tumultuous island whose history has been shaped by both nations. Situated ...