Adak Alaska Map

About Adak, Alaska

Adak is a locality in Aleutians West, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 171. The population density is 2.0 people per km². Adak is located at 51.9099°N, 176.5981°W. It observes the Hawaii-Aleutian Time (America/Adak) timezone. Adak is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 99546.

Adak emerges from the tundra as a stark, resilient node of human effort amidst an expansive, windswept interior. It lies 1193.2 miles west-southwest of Anchorage, AK (from Anchorage, AK: bearing 249°T). The landscape surrounding Adak is defined by low-slung, treeless plains that stretch toward the distant silhouette of Kanaton Ridge, where the earth rises in jagged, weathered teeth against the subarctic sky. Sweeper Creek carves a narrow, winding path through the soil just a mile from the center, its waters cutting through the quiet basin of Happy Valley only two miles away. The light here possesses a heavy, bruised quality, shifting from a thin, piercing gold in the morning to a deep, iron-gray as the clouds press down upon the land, turning the nearby Aleutian Islands Wilderness Area into a vast, untamed expanse of moss and stone.

History clings to the architecture of Adak, where the remnants of a former military installation stand as hollow, concrete reminders of a time when the economy was dictated by global strategy rather than the slow, deliberate pace of modern isolation. Today, the rhythm of life is dictated by the wind and the maintenance of a singular, quiet endurance, far removed from the bustle of the world. Residents move through a terrain where the stillness is punctuated by the distant, rhythmic rush of White Falls, located nine miles off, and the occasional flight of a bird over the still, dark surface of Mitt Lake. Life in Adak is a study in subtraction, stripping away the unnecessary until only the raw, elemental connection between the person and the immense, unyielding horizon remains.

About This Adak Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Adak, Alaska. Coordinates: 51.909889, -176.598067. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Adak includes the ZIP code (99546), telephone area code (907), county seat of Aleutians West, and school district assignment (Aleutian Region School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.