Islands

Aleutian Islands

The Aleutians sit on the circum-Pacific Ring of Fire, where the Pacific Plate meets its neighbours — the most seismically and volcanically active zone in the world.

Source: usgs.gov

Where it is

On the Atlas Quest map, the Aleutian Islands label sits at 53.8° N, 166.8° W, in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

Coordinates, names: Natural Earth, public domain.

Nearby places

The closest other places with pages here, measured between map label points:

• Bering Sea — about 400 km north-west
• Denali — about 1,400 km north-east
• Kamchatka Peninsula — about 2,100 km west
• Arctic Ocean — about 3,200 km north

Play with it

• Today’s daily geography challenge — one shared round, playable offline.
• Guess the country by its shape — six guesses, with distance and direction after each.
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