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The Aleutians are treeless, fog-bound, volcanic mountain tops rising from the
3es0 They extend in a chain westward from the tip of the Alaska peninsula for
ibout 15100 miles in a long arc that places the outermost island, Attu, wifcldn
300 miles of the Asiatic Hfurile Islands* Rain falls here in all soasons, with
in annual precipitation of about 60 inches,5 The olimate is wet^ oool, and win
iy and the islands, whose north-shore beaches have great strands of beach rye,
ire ice-free and open to navigation year around*
Most striking feature
f the .Aleutians is the
lumber and variety of
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hioh may be found the
so i fi c Bari oquitij, tihh
-ng Eider, St oiler1s
•der, the Old Squaw,
-d the Anglican Scoter® ■;
the gulls, the comm- i
test is the Glaucous- j
ngod which feeds on i
o prickly sea urchin, j
efo are Jawgers$ and !
rfins, Murres,Guiile- j
ts^ and Murrelots in j j
unties s numbers ong j j
e rocky shores are ! '■
arly 20 kirds of shore j
rds, ooraraonest of wh- j
h are the Aleutian |
• adpiper and the Black •
'3her Catcher«There is t
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rds, with f.o Raven j
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