Atka island
an island in the Andreanof Group of SW Alaska, in the central Aleutian Islands.
Historical Examples
We saw a few on Atka Island where several nests, with fresh eggs or incomplete sets, were found on June 18.
Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2) Arthur Cleveland Bent
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- Atl
. Historical Examples The Mexicans invariably confounded the words citatli, the moon, and atl, water. An Introduction to Mythology Lewis Spence The Mexican word for this last is chilli, for water it is “atl.” The Prehistoric World E. A. Allen It is, perhaps, only an accident that atl is the Mexican word for water. The […]