Everything about The Near Islands totally explained
The
Near Islands (
Sasignan tanangin in
Aleut) are the smallest and westernmost group of the
Aleutian Islands in southwestern
Alaska, at about .
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 east-southeast from Shemya are the small rocky reefs known as the
Ingenstrem Rocks. The total land area of all of the Near Islands is 1,143.785 km² (441.618 sq mi), and their total population was 47 persons as of the
2000 census. The only populated islands are Shemya and Attu.
The islands were named
Near Islands by Russian explorers in the 1700s because they were the nearest of the Aleutian Islands to Russia. They are the farthest of the islands from mainland Alaska.
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