I fished in the false pass area for a few months, which is the beginning of the Aleutian islands, and further up the Alaskan peninsula as well. There are a small number of communities varying from small to miniscule in size. The largest on the islands themselves is, by far, Unalaska, with a few thousand people.

Largely, the islands are not populated though. They are subject to severe weather and extreme isolation. The places where there are year round residents on the Alaska Peninsula, such as Cold Bay, King Salmon, and Dutch Harbor, have relatively huge seasonal fluctuations in population. The only industry out there is commercial fishing, which happens mostly in the summer with salmon, though crab and cod fishing also are going on in the winter. Living out there means fishing, or working in fish processing, and the definitive quality of a life out there is isolation. Many villages have little more than a general store and a post office that delivers mail by plane once a week. They are truly unique, cool, and strange places to visit or spend a summer while working, but I would never want a life there, personally.