The Near Islands are the smallest and westernmost group of the Aleutian Islands in southwestern Alaska, at about 52°51′ N 173°11′ E. Looking down the Aleutians from an airplane. ... State nickname: The Last Frontier, The Land of the Midnight Sun Other U.S. States Capital Juneau Largest city Anchorage Governor Frank Murkowski (R) Official languages English Area 1,717,854 km² (1st) - Land 1,481,347 km² - Water 236,507 km² (13. ...
The largest of the Near Islands are Attu and Agattu. Besides a few rocks in the channel between Attu and Agattu, the other important islands are the Semichi Islands to their northeast, notable among which are Alaid, Nizki and Shemya. About 20 miles to the ESE from Shemya is the small rocky reefs known as the Ingenstrem Rocks. Adapted from Wikipedias AK borough maps by Seth Ilys. ... Attu is the westernmost island in the Near Islands group of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, making it the westernmost point of land in Alaska and the United States. ... This page is a candidate to be moved to Wiktionary. ... The Semichi Islands are three small islands in the Near Islands group of the Aleutian Islands southwest of Alaska. ...
The islands were named Near Islands by Russian explorers in the 1700s because they were the nearest of the Aleutian Islands to Russia. The are the farthest of the islands from Alaska.
Map of Alaska's Near Islands, (modified from a screenshot of a map from MSMaps)
DISCUSSION Inter-island di//erences in diet.--At Alaid-Nizki and Agattu, Glaucous- winged Gulls fed primarily on intertidal invertebrates (87% and 91%, respec- tively); at Buldir and Semisopochnoi the principal food was birds (79% and 87%, respectively); while at Little Kiska the primary prey was fish (76%).
Islands without sea otters had dense invertebrate popu- lations (urchins, mussels, limpets, barnacles) in the littoral and shallow sublittoral zones.
These invertebrates were small and sparse on islands with high density sea otter populations, and in their place was a rich assemblage of marine macroalgae.
Agattu is 27 nautical miles southeast from AttuIsland's Massacre Bay, and is second only to Attu in size within the Near Island Group.
Agattu (55,535 acres), Amukta (12,425 acres) and Semisopochnoi (56,013 acres) are the only large islands where rock ptarmigan were eliminated by foxes in the Aleutians.
Today, Evermann's rock ptarmigan is confined to a single island, Attu, with an estimated population of 1,000 birds prior to the eradication of foxes there in 1999.
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