The roughly half-mile-long Nazi Creek on Little Kiska Island flows southeast into the Pacific Ocean. Historian Michael Livingston has applied to rename the creek. (From USGS) Michael Livingston is ...

The name Nazi Creek will no longer be used in federal databases or maps for an Aleutian Islands waterway that now has an Indigenous name. On Thursday, the Domestic Names Committee for the U.S. Board ...

Little Kiska Island, at the far western end of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, is a remote speck of land that was heavily contested during World War II. In an attack possibly timed to draw away U.S.

Alaska officials have voted unanimously to change the names of a creek and a hill on an Aleutian island in response to proposals arguing they were offensive and arbitrary. The features in question are ...

In the Battle of the Aleutian Islands (June 1942-August 1943) during World War II (1939-45), U.S. troops fought to remove Japanese garrisons established on a pair of U.S.-owned islands west of Alaska.

Michael Livingston is proposing Nazi Creek on Little Kiska Island be renamed to reflect the island’s Unangax̂ name — “Kangchix̂,” which translates to gizzard. The map enthusiast said he’s not certain ...