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Mount Adagdak
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Mount Adagdak in 2000
Highest point
Elevation 2,001 ft (610 m)
Geography
Mount Adagdak is located in Alaska
Mount Adagdak
Mount Adagdak
Location in Alaska
Parent range Aleutian Range
Topo map USGS Adak C-2
Geology
Age of rock Pleistocene
Mountain type Stratovolcano
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 1,180 miles (1,900 km) 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.

The volcano is made up of rock from three different periods of activity. The youngest rock was argon dated to between 205,000 - 215,000 years old.

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.

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