A small creek on Alaska’s Little Kiska Island has been renamed, more than 80 years after it was named after Germany’s Nazi Party by World War II soldiers fighting in the Aleutians. Nazi Creek was the ...

This month, state officials 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 ...

German soldiers never set foot on the speck of land at the far end of the Aleutian Islands during World War II, but the name persisted. By Adeel Hassan Little Kiska Island, at the far western end of ...

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 ...

A little-known creek in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska had been officially named “Nazi Creek” for 80 years — until recently. Following a campaign by a local advocate, the creek was given a new name in ...

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.