Word: aleutians
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ANIAKCHAK CALDERA. Located near the eastern end of the Aleutian island chain, the area is a geological oddity-a volcanic crater 10 kilometers (6 miles) in diameter and dotted with smaller volcanoes. Inside the crater is a remarkable blue-green lake on which seaplanes carrying sightseers can land. The more adventuresome can canoe down the Aniakchak River, which flows out of the lake through a cleft in the crater wall and drops some 600 meters (2,000 ft.) and 43 kilometers (27 miles) to the North Pacific...
...nation has more to lose or gain at Caracas than the U.S. It has the world's longest coastline (counting the Aleutian, Hawaiian and Micronesian archipelagoes), the mightiest Navy, the most extensive investment in offshore oil and mining. The rather liberal U.S. oceans policy was the product of a long, twisting tug of war between a number of personalities and interests...
THAT ELEMENT is the presence of the white man. Nineteenth century pioneers weren't attracted to the Aleutian islands, but the Alaskan gold rush made the land of the Indian tribes into a white-man's thoroughfare. The Tlingit and Athabaskan art comes to have European influences that disturb the fusion of beauty and purpose that makes the art of the Eskimos so moving...
...room of the Washington Post editorial office, the states south of the Mason-Dixon line will sink into the Gulf of Mexico, and George Meany and Mao Tse-tung will co-host a fundraiser to pay McGovern's phone bill, as late returns from an Eskimo tribe in the Aleutian Islands put George over...
That conclusion, by Wilfred P. Hasbrouck and Joe H. Allen of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is based on readings from magnetometers set up on Amchitka before Cannikin. Sensitive instruments were placed on each side of one of the faults that cross the thin 42-mile-long Aleutian island. A magnetometer on the side where the nuclear device was detonated quickly registered an increase of nine gammas* in the local magnetic field. On the opposite side of the fault from ground zero, the intensity of the magnetic field was found to have dropped by as much as eleven gammas...