Alaid Island
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean , Bering Sea | |
| Archipelago | Semichi Islands ( Near Islands ) | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 45 '30 " N , 173 ° 53' 59" E | |
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| surface | 5 km² | |
| Highest elevation | Lemon 204 m |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
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Alaid Island is the northwesternmost island of the Semichi Islands , a subgroup of the Near Islands in the extreme west of the Alëuten in Alaska . The highest point on the island, at 204 m, is also the highest point in the Semichi Islands. There is also a weather station on the island.
In Alaid Iceland and the adjacent Nizki Iceland hatch about 1000 pairs of Aleutian Canada goose ( Branta hutchinsii leucopareia ), a subspecies of the dwarf Canada goose .
climate
The average annual temperature is 7.8 ° C. The monthly average temperatures of −0.2 ° C in January and 10.0 ° C in August fluctuate little; on average, only 12 days a year are above 10 ° C and only 20 days a year below −3 ° C. The average annual rainfall is 77 cm and 185 cm of snow fall; in addition to 91 days with snowfall, there are an average of 224 rainy days.