Is Akutan active volcano?
Akutan volcano is one of the most active stratovolcanoes of the Aleutian arc. The volcano has a 2-km-wide caldera with an active intracaldera cone.
When did Akutan last erupt?
December 1992
| Mount Akutan | |
|---|---|
| Age of rock | Pleistocene |
| Mountain type | Stratovolcano |
| Volcanic arc/belt | Aleutian Arc |
| Last eruption | December 1992 |
What type of volcano is Akutan?
composite stratovolcano
From Miller and others (1998): “Akutan volcano is a composite stratovolcano with a circular summit caldera about 2 km across and 60 to 365 m deep and an active intracaldera cinder cone.
What does Akutan mean?
Akutan is an Aleut name reported by Capt. Pyotr Krenitsyn and Mikhail Levashev in 1768, and spelled Acootan by James Cook in 1785. This name may be from the Aleut word “hakuta” which, according to R. H. Geoghegan, means “I made a mistake.”
Do people live in the Akutan Island?
Akutan is a fishing community, and is the site of a traditional Unangan village. Approximately 100 persons are year-round residents; the majority of the population are transient fish processing workers that live in group quarters.
Who lives on Adak Island?
Now, a small permanent civilian population , between 100 and 300 depending on the time of year, lives on the island, many of whom work at a fish processing plant. But the remnants of a much larger, semi-abandoned community remain all around.
Can I live in Adak island?
Today, only about 80 people live full-time on Adak, in the dense center of town. (This compares to 90,000 stationed during the peak in World War II and 6,000 during the Cold War.)
Is Adak abandoned?
Adak once housed more than 6,000 people, now about 80 remain. The housing pictured here is almost entirely abandoned. To the left is Kuluk Bay, and beyond that the Bering Sea.