Alaid Island (Alaska)

Alaid Iceland is the most north-western island of Semichi Islands, a subgroup of the Near Islands in the far west of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. The highest elevation on the island is 204 m at the same time the highest point of the Semichi Islands. On the island there is also a weather station.

On Alaid Iceland and the adjacent Nizki Iceland brooding about 1000 pairs of the Aleutian Canada goose ( Branta hutchinsii leucopareia ), a subspecies of the Canada Goose dwarf.

Climate

The average annual temperature is 7.8 ° C. The average monthly temperatures -0.2 ° C in January and 10.0 ° C in August vary little; are on average only 12 days a year above 10 ° C and only 20 days a year below -3 ° C. The mean annual rainfall is 77 cm and 185 cm snow fall; next 91 days with snowfall, there are 224 rainy days on average.