#207 Shipwrecks

The few people who live in Alaska's the Aleutian Islands have long been accustomed to shipwrecks. They have been part of local consciousness since a Japanese whaling ship ran [1] near the western end of the 1,100-mile (1,800-km) volcanic [2] in 1780, inadvertently naming what is now Rat Island when the ship's infestation [3] ashore and made itself at home. Since then, there have been at least 190 shipwrecks in the islands.