Aleutian Islands — an archipelago extending SW from the Alaska Peninsula: part of Alaska. Also called Aleutians. * * * Chain of small islands, Alaska, U.S. They form a border of the Bering Sea, extending in an arc about 1,100 mi (1,800 km) west from the tip of the… … Universalium
Commander Islands — Coordinates: 55°N 167°E / 55°N 167°E / 55; 167 … Wikipedia
arctic — arctically, adv. /ahrk tik/ or, esp. for 7, /ahr tik/, adj. 1. (often cap.) of, pertaining to, or located at or near the North Pole: the arctic region. 2. coming from the North Pole or the arctic region: an arctic wind. 3. characteristic of the… … Universalium
Dates of 2008 — ▪ 2009 January As we meet tonight, our economy is undergoing a period of uncertainty.… At kitchen tables across our country, there is a concern about our economic future. U.S. Pres. George W. Bush, in his final state of the union address, January … Universalium
Eskimo-Aleut languages — Family of languages spoken in Greenland, Canada, Alaska, U.S., and eastern Siberia by the Eskimo and Aleut peoples. Aleut, distantly related to the Eskimo languages, consists of eastern and western dialects; today both are spoken by fewer than… … Universalium
mammal — mammallike, adj. /mam euhl/, n. any vertebrate of the class Mammalia, having the body more or less covered with hair, nourishing the young with milk from the mammary glands, and, with the exception of the egg laying monotremes, giving birth to… … Universalium
Aleut language — Aleut Unangam Tunuu, one of two branches of the Eskimo Aleut languages (q.v.). Two mutually intelligible dialects survive, Eastern Aleut and Atkan Aleut. A third dialect, Attu, now extinct in Alaska, survives on Bering Island (one of the … Universalium
sea cow — 1. any sirenian, as the manatee or dugong. 2. Obs. the hippopotamus. [1605 15] * * * or Steller s sea cow Extinct aquatic mammal (Hydrodamalis gigas) that lived around islands in the Bering Sea. It was discovered in 1741 and described by a member … Universalium
Chirikov, Aleksey Ilich — ▪ Russian explorer born , 1703 died November 1748, Moscow, Russia explorer, second in command on the Arctic expeditions of Vitus Bering (Bering, Vitus), whose discovery of southern Alaska supported Russian claims to northwestern America as… … Universalium
Bering Sea and Strait — ▪ sea, Pacific Ocean Introduction Russian Beringovo More and Proliv Beringa, northernmost part of the Pacific Ocean, separating the continents of Asia and North America. To the north the Bering Sea connects with the Arctic Ocean through the … Universalium
