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Adak

American  
[ey-dak] / ˈeɪ dæk /

noun

  1. an island in SW Alaska, in the Andreanof group of the Aleutian Islands.


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The AIU is going further, helping to guide how the Kenyan government's newly pledged money should be spent with a senior AIU official moving on secondment to Adak for two years.

From BBC • Jul. 19, 2023

If either volcano erupts, the closest community affected would be Adak, 65 miles from the volcanoes.

From Washington Times • Mar. 10, 2023

Lily, 11, and Anna, 8, sisters who live on remote Adak Island, Alaska, spent the year extraordinarily separate from the world.

From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2021

The observatory on Thursday received reports from people in the community of Adak of a lava fountain at the summit of the Great Sitkin volcano.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 5, 2021

At one point, he heard about a McDonald’s in Adak, Alaska, a largely deserted island in the middle of the Bering Sea.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2020