Roadtrippin’ 2025: Active volcanoes, millions of seabirds, and caribou skulls
ADAK, Alaska (KTUU) - A lot of people visit Adak to see the crumbling military base, but it’s the wildlife, land, and sea in the tiny Aleutian community that are the real treat.
The Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge is a habitat for marine mammals and some 40 million seabirds.
According to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, this area was established in 1980 and consists of more than 200 islands which are actually the peaks of 57 submarine volcanoes (27 of which are considered active).
USFS says marine mammals include Stellar sea lions, threatened northern sea otters and harbor seals. Most of the land mammals, including foxes, reindeer and caribou (at its peak there were almost 3,000) were introduced by humans.
You can also fish for halibut, cod, rockfish, sablefish, yellowfin sole, pollack, sand lance, herring, and salmon.
One cool location is boating out to where the Bering Sea converges with the Pacific Ocean.
Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge lands are open to hunting with a permit and this is the private property of the Aleut Corporation.
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