Rat Islands
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The Rat Islands is a group of islands in the Aleutian Islands in southwest Alaska, between the Near Islands to its west, and the Andreanof Islands group to its east, at about .
The largest islands in the group, from west to east, Kiska, Rat Island or Kryssei, Little Sitkin, Amchitka and Semisopochnoi.
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.
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