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Adak Update Home Adak Island’s coordinates are latitude 51°53’0" N, at longitude 176° 38’46" W. The Bering Sea surrounds the island to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. Adak Island became part of the Alaska Territory, which was subsequently purchased from Russia by the United States in 1867. In 1913, Adak Island was included in the 2.9-million-acre Aleutian Islands National Wildlife Refuge (renamed the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge in 1980) established by the President. adakupdate.com /bkg.html

Adak Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Adak Island is an island near the western extent of the Adak Island was chosen as the site of an airfield and operations began in September 1942. Adak Island has been the home to Aleut peoples since ancient times. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adak_Island

Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge Adak Island is adjacent to and overlying a zone at the boundary of the Pacific and the North American tectonic plates. Adak and Amchitka bases were pivotal in launching assaults that eventually ended in a nearly three-week land battle by Allied Forces to retake Attu. The first people to inhabit the islands of the Aleutian Chain were ancestors of today’s Aleut/Unangan people and migrated thousands of years ago from Asia, probably across a land bridge that connected the continents during the Ice Age. alaskamaritime.fws.gov /units/History-Adak.htm

Adak Island Adak Island is the largest island in the Andreanof group, having a total of more than 280 square miles, and today ras Restricted public access. Late August 1942, the U.S. built an airstrip on Adak Island to launch air attacks against the Japanese forces on Attu and Kiska. Adak became the ACS Headquarters and the largest Army/Navy base in the Aleutians. www.pacificwrecks.com /provinces/alaska_adak.html

Adak Is Open To The World! Adak is in the middle of one of the world's richest fishing regions which is why AFDC is now operating a seafood processing and cold storage plant on the island. The island features a 2 billion-dollar working community, with modern airport, ice-free deep-water port, major fuel storage capabilities, and 30-thousand acres of land available for lease or sale. According the company officials, Adak's location and existing facilities made it economically possible to handle primary processing on the fishing grounds. www.adakisland.com /marine.htm

Adak Island - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Adak Island 50 km/30 mi north–south and 5–32 km/3–20 mi east–west, the mountainous, fogbound island is the site of the Adak Naval Station, established in 1942, after the Japanese attack on the western Aleutians. The principal harbour on Adak is Sweeper Cove. One of the Andrean of Islands in the central Aleutian Islands, southwest Alaska. encyclopedia.farlex.com /Adak%20Island

Naval Station, Adak, Alaska Adak is located in the Andreanoff Group of Islands in the Aleutian Chain, at a latitude – 176°40’W and a longitude of 51°50’N. It lies about half way between Seattle, 2,062 miles to the east, and Tokyo, 2,070 miles to the west, on the Great Circle Route. The island of Adak is about 25 miles long and 12 miles wide at its wildest point, and has a very irregular coastline which varies from broad beaches to sheer sea cliffs. Adak is cooled by the Bering Sea to the North, and warmed by the Japanese Current in the Pacific Ocean to the South. www.geocities.com /Yosemite/Gorge/2439/Adak/14AdakDes.html

PCS FROM ISLAND TO ISLAND About a month after reporting aboard at Adak, the command received an official message over the Teletype directing the Officer-in-Charge, a Senior Chief Radioman at the time, to “select and direct one RM3 or SNRM to report to the loran station on Sitkinak Island. After a couple of weeks leave visiting the folks in Southern California, I reported to Coast Guard Base Seattle, Washington where I was processed with an overseas physical — Alaska was considered overseas duty — and received my final orders, Coast Guard Radio Station, Adak Island. Adak is at a point where the cold waters of the Bering Sea mixes with the warmer waters of the Japanese Current which passes just south of Adak in the Pacific Ocean. www.jacksjoint.com /pcs_from_island_to_island.htm

ATSDR - PHA - Naval Air Facility, Adak (a/k/a ADAK Naval Air Station), Adak, Aleutian Islands Census, Alaska Adak Island is located in the Andreanof Island group of the Aleutian Islands, the string of rugged, volcanic islands (archipelago) curving 1,200 mi (1,900 km) west from the tip of the Alaska Peninsula. At its peak, over 100,000 military personnel were staged on or near Adak preparing to battle the Japanese on neighboring islands and preparing for Japanese invasion on Adak Island. With the closure of Adak as a military facility, NAVFAC (or EFA NW) became the custodian of the facility, with the responsibility for environmental restoration and transfer of the facility to a viable entity. www.atsdr.cdc.gov /hac/pha/adak/ada_p1.html

DEC - Contaminated Sites Program - Site Summary - Adak The former Adak Naval Air Facility occupies approximately 76,800 acres on Adak Island and is part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. Army installations at Adak allowed U.S. forces to mount a successful offensive against the Japanese-held islands of Kiska and Attu. Adak was one of many remote sites in Alaska where dishes for communications were installed in the mid-1950's as part of the White Alice defense communications system. www.dec.state.ak.us /spar/csp/sites/adak.htm

Search Encyclopedia.com Yerba Buena Island Yerba Buena Island, 300 acres (121 hectares), W Calif., in San Francisco Bay. On the island are several government installations, including a lighthouse service and a naval training station. It is the midpoint of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, which crosses the island through a tunnel. www.encyclopedia.com /search.asp?target=@DOCKEYWORDS%20uspg&unkey=uspg

Adak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The town of Adak, Alaska on Adak Island en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adak

Adak Ski Hill Adak is located in the Andreanof Islands, 1,300 miles southwest of Anchorage and 350 miles west of Unalaska/Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Island Chain. Adak lies in the maritime climate zone, characterized by persistently overcast skies, high winds, and frequent cyclonic storms Winter squalls produce wind gusts in excess of 100 knots. Adak was developed as a Naval Air Station after the War, playing an important role during the Cold War as a submarine surveillance center. www.alsap.org /Adak/Adak.htm

NAS Adak, AL Adak Island was designated part of the Aleutian Island Reservation by Executive Order 1733 on March 3, 1913. The facility is being leased to the Adak Reuse Corporation, who are marketing the island to commercial fishing fleets and other business which operate in the area. • Beginning in the early 1940s, Adak became a key operations and supply location for United States military forces after the Japanese occupation of Kiska and Attu Islands during World War II. www.waltcummings.com /career/adak/NASadak.htm

HIGH LONESOME BIRDTOURS: ADAK, ALASKA For those of you who don't know anything about this fascinating destination, Adak Island offers the farthest western access to potential Asiatic species since Attu closed down in 2000. The island has good tourism infrastructure because of the major military installation that is now closed. Adak is an expensive place to go, especially with air fare. www.hilonesome.com /adak05.html

ATSDR - PHA - Naval Air Facility, Adak (a/k/a ADAK Naval Air Station), Adak, Aleutian Islands Census, Alaska Adak was used as a major staging area for bombing against the Japanese on the islands of Attu and Kiska during WWII. ATSDR has evaluated potential future public health issues on Adak Island by integrating the land uses described in the preferred alternative for redevelopment with information on the types and concentrations of hazardous substances, explosive and physical hazards that will be left in the soils, sediments, groundwater, and surface waters. Preliminary Review Draft Comprehensive Monitoring Plan, Operable Unit A, Former Naval Base, Adak Island, Alaska, May 5, 1999. www.atsdr.cdc.gov /HAC/PHA/adak/ada_p3.html

Adak Island Communications Station Message Board dedicated to former CT's We're the western most town in the USA on Adak Island, far, far away, where the rain falls down on the tundra ground, and the great tall mountains are all around. Was an OT3 at NavFac Adak from 9/74 - 9/75. Adak was the last place in my life, before I was an adult, that I have happy memories of. home.comcast.net /~adakisland/guestbook2001p2.html

ADAK ISLAND, ALASKA ITINERARY Adak Island in the central Aleutians, 1300 miles southwest of Anchorage, the westernmost portion of North America that is accessible by commercial airline. Adak is a 280-square mile island in the Aleutians. Adak is a spectacular birding destination that has only recently become accessible to the birding public. www.birdtreks.com /itin/akad105.html

Gerrit Gillespies Adak Alaska Page 1981 It was caught between Adak and Kagalaska in the Kagalaska Strait. The naval activities were closed around 1995, but the island remains a wildlife refuge, and still has very capable airfield and docks. During WWII when 100,000 or so men were staged on Adak, many of these low, screwed into the tundra fence posts were used in case of invasion. www.cybercentric1.com /Adak-Alaska-1981.htm

Adak Island 1971 I couldn't believe this island was on the planet earth. The intent of this page is to provide some pictures and a message board for those who served on Adak who might want to get in touch with long lost friends or just share memories. The volcanoes on the approach and the wrecked planes alongside the runway made for an uneasy landing. home.comcast.net /~adakisland/front.html

CMS: Mesoplodont whales - Palacios DM (1996) On the specimen of the ginkgo-toothed beaked whale, Mesoplodon ginkgodens, from the Galapagos Islands. Records of cetaceans stranded on the Canary Islands coast from 1992 to 1994. - Lucas ZN, Hooker S (2000) Cetacean strandings on Sable Island, Nova Scotia, 1970-1998. www.cms.int /reports/small_cetaceans/Mesoplodon.htm

S. 1325 Withdrawals of portions of Adak Island for various military purposes date back to 1901 and culminated in the 1959 withdrawal of approximately half of the Island for use by the Department of the Navy for military purposes. In 1913, Adak Island was reserved and set aside as a Preserve because of its value to seabirds, marine mammals, and fisheries. The Aleut Corporation represents the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands who prior to the Russian exploration and settlement of the Aleutian Islands were found throughout the Aleutian Islands which includes Adak Island. www.theorator.com /bills107/s1325.html

Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge The volcanic island of Adak is located about half way out the Aleutian chain. The island attracts a variety of birds to habitats that vary from marine waters to barren mudflats to high alpine tundra. Thirty-four of the 155 birds on the island’s checklist are typical of Asia. alaskamaritime.fws.gov /visitors-educators/wildlifeviewing/adak.htm

Adak Update Home Adak UXO Awareness Fact Sheet (file size 697 KB) Adak Land Transfer Fact Sheet (file size 1.0 MB) Adak Marine Monitoring Fact Sheet (file size 305 KB) adakupdate.com

Adak Alaska Photography Special features include three huge panoramic photographs of Adak at a time when the runways were being constructed, a visit by President FDR, recon photos, and many off-duty photographs showing life on Adak. The author discovers Electras in Alaska: Reeve Aleutian Airline or Airways (It was Airways when I was on Adak but I think it became Airlines later) He goes to Alaska to photograph and experience the Electra, but is captivated by the awesome beauty and terrible power of Alaska. This is a true story told by an aviator stationed on Adak at the time of the event. www.orneveien.org /adak

Adak, Alaska - links to government resources and information Whidbey Island, Washington, employees of the Naval Regional Medical Clinic, Seattle, Washington, employees of the Branch Hospital, Adak, Alaska, and employees... NAVY SUPPORTS S....is the critical enabler that would allow Navy to dispose of property that comprised the former Naval Air Facility Adak (NAF Adak), Alaska, which was closed as... We are willing to have lands with improvements on Adak removed from the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge in exchange for undeveloped land elsewhere in... www.us-news-watch.com /Alaska/Adak.html

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crind6.htm Signal building party resting on the slopes of Kagalaska Island Ragged Point, Kagalaska Island, Aleutians, Alaska May, 1953 PATHFINDER on the working grounds at Kagalaska Island www.photolib.noaa.gov /corps/crind6.htm

Adak Island Airport Adak Island Airport is located in Adak Island, Alaska. With priceline, flying to your favorite Adak Island Airport destination is a simple mouse-click away. Priceline searches thousands of airlines and flight schedules providing you convenient flight times to and from Adak Island Airport. airlines.priceline.com /airlines/adak-island-airport.html

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