Mount Adagdak

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Mount Adagdak
File:MountAdagdak.jpg
Mount Adagdak in 2000
Highest point
Elevation Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value).[1]
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[1]
Geography
Mount Adagdak is located in Alaska
Mount Adagdak
Mount Adagdak
Parent range Aleutian Range[1]
Topo map USGS Adak C-2
Geology
Age of rock Pleistocene[1]
Mountain type Stratovolcano[1]
Volcanic arc/belt Aleutian Arc

Mount Adagdak is a Pleistocene age stratovolcano on the northernmost extremity of Adak Island in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Located about Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). from Anchorage, the mountain is located about 1.4 kilometers (0.9 mi) south of Cape Adagdak, for which it was named in 1948 by the United States Geological Survey.

John Hunter of Quicklaunch has twice proposed the use of Mount Adagdak's western slope as the emplacement site for a light-gas gun to launch small payloads into orbit for use at ISS.[2]

See also

References

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