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Unalaska Island

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Un·a·las·ka Island  (n-lsk, n-)
An island of southwest Alaska in the eastern Aleutian Islands southwest of Unimak Island. It was discovered c. 1759 by Russian explorers and used as a fur-trading center.

Unalaska Island [ˌuːnəˈlæskə]
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(Placename) a large volcanic island in SW Alaska, in the Aleutian Islands. Length: 120 km (75 miles). Greatest width: about 40 km (25 miles)


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00 Paperback TD427 In December of 2004, the ship Selendang Ayu spilled 336,000 gallons of oil into the waters off Unalaska Island in the Aleutians.
They were also collected by longline from waters north of Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Islands in 1996, the central Gulf of Alaska and the northwestern Bering Sea near Russia in 1997, and north of Unalaska Island (Aleutian Islands) and in the eastern and central Gulf of Alaska in 2001.
 
 
 
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