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English: Lake Clark map from the official brochure, showing Redoubt Volcano, Dick Proenneke’s cabin, and the entire park and preserve. Date: 10 April 2016: Source:
Iliamna Volcano, or Mount Iliamna (Dena'ina: Ch’naqaĊ’in; Sugpiaq: Puyulek), is a glacier-covered stratovolcano in the largely volcanic Aleutian Range in southwest Alaska. Located in the Chigmit Mountain subrange in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve , the 10,016-foot (3,053 m) volcano lies approximately 134 miles (215 km) southwest of ...
Map of Lake Clark National Park. Also see resolution adjustable map. Lake Clark National Park and Preserve covers 4,030,015 acres (1,630,889 ha) at the base of the Alaska Peninsula in southcentral Alaska, about 100 miles (160 km) southwest of Anchorage. Of the total area, about 2,637,000 acres (1,067,000 ha) lie in the park and 1,400,000 acres ...
Lake Clark’s namesake lake reaches a depth of around 870 feet, according to the park’s website. Spanning 128 square miles, Niles notes it’s the sixth-largest lake in Alaska. Other lakes in ...
Redoubt Volcano, or Mount Redoubt (Dena'ina: Bentuggezh K’enulgheli), is an active stratovolcano in the largely volcanic Aleutian Range of the U.S. state of Alaska. Located at the head of the Chigmit Mountains subrange in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve , the mountain is just west of Cook Inlet , in the Kenai Peninsula Borough about 110 ...
It is set along the west shore of Cook Inlet and within Lake Clark National Park and Preserve. The mountain is situated 115 miles (185 km) southwest of Anchorage, 58 miles (93 km) southwest of Kenai, and 15 miles (24 km) east of Mount Iliamna volcano. Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains into Johnson River and Cook Inlet.
It drains through Six Mile Lake and the Newhalen River into Iliamna Lake. The lake is about 64 km (40 mi) long and about 8 km (5.0 mi) wide. Lake Clark was named for John W. Clark, chief of the Nushagak trading post and the first American non-Native to see the lake, when an expedition financed by a weekly magazine reached it in February 1891. [2]
The volcano has two vents about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) apart, and active fumaroles at the tallest summit. [25] Mount Denison is a 7,605-foot (2,318 m) peak with four related vents at the head of three glaciers, [26] the tallest point in the park. [9] Mount Kukak is another ice-covered volcano, 6,693 feet (2,040 m) tall.