Rat Island (Alaska)
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For the island in New York, see [[Rat Island (New York)]].
Rat Island is an island in the Rat Islands archipelago of the western Aleutian Islands in the U.S. state of Alaska. The island has a land area of 26.7095 km² (10.3126 sq mi) and no permanent population.
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- Rat Island: Block 1140, Census Tract 1, Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska United States Census Bureau
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The name Rat Islands is the English translation of the name given to the islands by Captain Fyodor Petrovich Litke in 1827 when he visited the Aleutian Islands on a voyage around the world.
The Rat Islands are very earthquake-prone as they are located on the boundary of the Pacific and North American tectonic plates. In 1965, there was a major earthquake with the magnitude 8.7 in the Rat Islands.
