Key facts
- Location
- Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska
- Lake type
- oligotrophic
- Primary inflows
- Newhalen River , Iliamna River , Pile River , Copper River
- Primary outflows
- Kvichak River
- Basin countries
- United States
- Max length
- 77 mi (124 km)
- Max width
- 22 mi (35 km)
- Surface area
- 1,012.5 sq mi (2,622 km )
- Average depth
- 144 ft (44 m)
- Max depth
- 988 ft (301 m)
- Water volume
- 115.5 km (27.7 cu mi)
- Residence time
- 7.8 years
- Surface elevation
- 46 ft (14 m)
- Settlements
- Iliamna , Newhalen , Kokhanok , Pedro Bay , Igiugig
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lake
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Lake and Peninsula Borough
- Area
- 2622
- Elevation
- 14
- Image
- Iliamna Lake by Sentinel-2.jpg
- Width
- 35
- Length
- 124
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- basin country
- United States
- Commons category
- Iliamna Lake
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- vertical depth
- 301
- outflows
- Kvichak River
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Iliamna Lake or Lake Iliamna (/ˌɪliˈæmnə/ IL-ee-AM-nə; Yup'ik: Nanvarpak; Dena'ina Athabascan: Nila Vena) is a lake in southwest Alaska, at the north end of the Alaska Peninsula, between Kvichak Bay and Cook Inlet, about 100 miles (160 km) west of Seldovia, Alaska. It shares a name with the Iliamna River, which flows into it, and the nearby community of Iliamna, Alaska.
It is the largest lake in Alaska, 7th largest lake in the United States, and twenty-fourth in North America. Covering about 2,600 km (1,000 sq mi), Iliamna Lake is 77 miles (124 km) long and up to 22 miles (35 km) wide, with a maximum depth of 988 feet (301 m). Through the Kvichak River, its waters drain into Bristol Bay.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Iliamna Lake” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.