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Alaska's rodent-free Rat Island gets new name - Hawadax
Thu, May 31 00:37 AM EDT

By Yereth Rosen

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The remote Aleutian site known for two centuries as Rat Island, notorious as the first spot in Alaska despoiled by rats, has a new, more dignified name to celebrate its hard-won rodent-free status - but it may be harder for some to pronounce.


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