This month, state officials voted unanimously to change the names of a creek and a hill on an Aleutian island in response ... that took place during World War II in the Aleutians.

With their close proximity to Japan, the Aleutian Islands seemed especially prone to an attack. Stretching westward into the Pacific Ocean, the chain of roughly 150 islands lay just 750 miles away ...

As the Japanese Empire was planning to conquer the Pacific, they realized they would have to deploy their forces to many small islands or atolls where building an airstrip would be hard or impossible.

The island lies further west than Hawaii; its position on the cusp of East Asia makes it one of Alaska's more remote and idiosyncratic communities. Part of the Aleutian Islands, a 1,100-mile ...

The Discovery+ doc explores Alaska's rugged Aleutian Island chain with filmmaker Ian Shive and a U.S. Fish and Wildlife research team. “It was a trip of a lifetime,” says the Los Angeles-based ...