Originally inhabited by the Unangan First Nation ... Of the many volcanoes that dot the Aleutian Islands, three call Unimak Island home. The largest is the active volcano, Mount Shishaldin ...

A series of moderate to strong earthquakes hit Alaska's western Aleutian Islands ... only Adak Island, with a population of about 300 people, is inhabited. Nine quakes measuring at least magnitude ...

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

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 ...