The Aleuts, at left, who lived on the Aleutian Islands, were captured, interned or removed by the combatants. At right, the fiercely cold weather meant clothing was a key part of the fight.

Remote, freezing, and nearly forgotten—the Aleutian Islands saw the only ground battle on U.S. soil in WWII. What happened on Attu and Kiska was anything but typical.

The Aleutian chain, made up of 14 large volcanic islands and 55 smaller ones, stretches more than 1,600 kilometers from the Alaskan mainland toward Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.

What happens when you accept a last-minute Regent Seven Seas Explorer cruise to the Alaskan wilderness but all the shore excursions have been snapped up?

A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck the Andreanof Islands in the Aleutian Islands on March 21, 2025, at 15:03:29 GMT, according to the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences.

The IDL is an artificial cartographical determination set in 1884, and is not based on international law. Interestingly, adjustments were made in 1910 to accommodate two remote Hawaiian islands at ...

In both 2022 and 2023, the US Navy sent assets to shadow joint Chinese-Russian naval patrols operating in the Aleutian Islands region. [1] The Chinese and Russian navies have also been operating ...

These two islands are divided by the International Date Line which creates a 22-hour time gap between them.

Plane passengers crossing the International Date Line on their flights will be able to celebrate the New Year twice and will essentially 'time travel'.

Because of how the international date line zigs and zags, the islands actually are west of Kiribati. Both islands are an unincorporated, unorganized territory of the United States, forming part of ...

AMCHITKA ISLAND, Alaska (AP) — A series of moderate to strong earthquakes that struck Alaska’s western Aleutian Islands and offshore areas Sunday comprised what scientists call a “swarm ...