Official Name: | Adok |
Pushpin Map: | South Sudan |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in South Sudan |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | South Sudan |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Greater Upper Nile |
Subdivision Type2: | State |
Subdivision Name2: | Unity State |
Subdivision Type3: | County |
Subdivision Name3: | Leer County |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Timezone Dst: | +3GMT |
Coordinates: | 8.1885°N 30.3069°W |
Blank Name: | Climate |
Blank Info: | Aw |
Adok is a port on the White Nile in the Leer County of Unity State in the Greater Upper Nile region of South Sudan.In the early 1980s Chevron Corporation found oil in Adok.
Adok had strategic value during the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983-2005).Between October and December 1991 the town was the scene of fighting between the Nasir and Torit factions of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA).In the late 1990s the Austrian company OMV began explorations in the Leer-Adok area.Between December 2002 and early February 2003 the government made a renewed push to clear the road south from Bentiu to the port of Adok.