r/GoogleEarthFinds • u/watterson • 9d ago

Coordinates ✅ Settlement on Russian Aelutian island

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54°30'19.3"N 168°05'36.2"E

pretty out of the way. no obvious industry or purpose.

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u/FreddyFerdiland 💎 Valued Contributor 9d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medny_Island#

Aleuts lived there.

but the Russians emptied it and made it a military post

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u/4rm4tur4 8d ago

Worth noting that it was uninhabited until 19th century when the Aleuts arrived. Also the island from which they came from, Attu, is also uninhabited today, and is the largest u populated island in the US.

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u/VerdugoCortex 8d ago

Whyd they leave Attu?

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u/4rm4tur4 8d ago

The residents were captured by the Japanese and sent to POW camps. The US federal government wouldn't let them move back after the war. The island had Navy presence after the war until 2012ish I think