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Adak Alaska Map

Explore Adak, Alaska, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Adak, Alaska

How to Use This Adak, Alaska Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Adak, Alaska. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Alaska or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Adak.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Adak
State	Alaska (AK)
County	Aleutians West
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Hawaii-Aleutian Time (America/Adak)

Latitude	51.909889
Longitude	-176.598067
Population	171
Density	2.0 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	99546
Area Code	907
School District	Aleutian Region School District

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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.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Mid Palisades Overlook (Viewpoint) — 0.1 mi, 240° SW
Kuluk Bay Landing Site Marker (Monument) — 1.3 mi, 231° SW
Longview/Davis Army Air Field Marker (Monument) — 2.9 mi, 221° SW
Armytown Marker (Monument) — 3.0 mi, 215° SW
Wrecked Boat (Historic Ruins) — 4.8 mi, 210° SW

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