The

Aleutian Islands The Aleutian Islands ( ; ; , "land of the Aleuts"; possibly from the Chukchi language, Chukchi ''aliat'', or "island")—also called the Aleut Islands, Aleutic Islands, or, before Alaska Purchase, 1867, the Catherine Archipelago—are a chain ...

are divided into six major island chains, and one additional island. From east to west, they are Fox Islands, Islands of the Four Mountains, Andreanof Islands,

Rat Islands The Rat Islands (,) are a group of American High islands, volcanic islands in the Aleutian Islands in southwestern Alaska, between Buldir Island and the Near Islands group to its west, and Amchitka Pass and the Andreanof Islands group to its e ...

, Buldir Island,

Near Islands The Near Islands or the Sasignan Islands (, ) are a group of volcanic islands in the Aleutian Islands in southwestern Alaska, between the Russian Commander Islands to the west and Buldir Island and the Rat Islands to the east. Geography Th ...

and

Commander Islands The Commander Islands, Komandorski Islands, or Komandorskie Islands (, ''Komandorskiye ostrova'') are a series of islands in the Russian Far East, a part of the Aleutian Islands, located about east of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Bering Sea. ...

. The Commander Islands are under the jurisdiction of

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, and the rest are under the jurisdiction of the

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. Listed below are all the islands with an area of at least 0.1 square miles.

References

{{reflist * Bergsland, K. ''Aleut Dictionary'', Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center, 1994 *Orth, Donald J. 1971. ''Dictionary of Alaskan place names''. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 567, 1083 pp. * Aleutian

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