- Umnak - Aleutian Islands.1 milyon görüntülemeYayınlandı31 Eki 2021
- The Aleutian Islands are a long archipelago of volcanic islands stretching from mainland Alaska 1200 miles across the Bering Sea towards the continent of Asia.
- The Aleutian Islands consist of more than 200 islands which are actually the peaks of 57 submarine volcanoes (27 of which are considered active)...
- Museum of the Aleutians: The mission of the Museum of the Aleutians is to collect, preserve, and share the rich cultural legacy of the Aleutian Islands.
- In 1976, the Aleutian Islands have declared a biosphere reserve by UNESCO. The Aleutians were one of 17 reserves of the biosphere in the United States...
- Born in 1825 in Archangel, Russia, he eventually became bishop of the Aleutian Islands and all of Alaska, before his death in 1882.
- Also the Aleutian Islands are known for the fact that on themthere are ancient burials of the tribe Unangan - the ancestors of the Aleuts.
- About 300 islands distributed over an arc of 1100 miles (plus about 800 miles of the Alaska Peninsula) form the Aleutian archipelago.
- Most of the islands are within the Aleutian Biosphere Reserve and Wildlife Refuge, which contains a unique mixture of marine birds and mammals.
- In this subduction zone, some of the ocean plate melts and the molten rock pushes to the surface in a string of 40 active volcanoes, forming the Aleutian Islands.