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Near Islands

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Near Islands: see Aleutian Islands Aleutian Islands , chain of rugged, volcanic islands curving c.1,200 mi (1,900 km) west from the tip of the Alaska Peninsula and approaching Russia's Komandorski Islands.
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the most western group in the Aleutian Islands. The islands are mountainous (highest point, 953 meters) and uninhabited except for the largest island, Attu. The Near Islands were the first of the Aleutian Island groups discovered in 1745 by the Russian industrialist M. Nevodchikov.
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Many analogous facts could be given: indeed it is an almost universal rule that the endemic productions of islands are related to those of the nearest continent, or of other near islands.
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