阿留申群岛

ā liú shēn qún dǎo

Aleutian Islands (trailing 2250 km southwest of Alaska almost down to Kamtchatka)

ā

abbr. for country names that begin with 阿[a1]: Algeria 阿爾及利亞|阿尔及利亚[A1 er3 ji2 li4 ya4], Afghanistan 阿富汗[A1 fu4 han4] etc

liú

to leave (a message etc)

shēn

old name for Shanghai 上海[Shang4 hai3]

qún

variant of 群[qun2]

dǎo

island