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The Aleutian Islands extend from mainland Alaska in a six hundred-mile long chain. They appeared after rock melted deep down in the Aleutian Trench, then bobbed up through the crust beyond the trench to build a curved row of volcanic islands. The Commander Islands continue the arc on the Asian side of the Pacific.
