Mendenhall Lake

Mendenhall Lake
Mendenhall Lake
Location Juneau, Alaska
Coordinates 58°25′24″N 134°34′10″W / 58.42333°N 134.56944°W / 58.42333; -134.56944 (Mendenhall Lake (Juneau))Coordinates: 58°25′24″N 134°34′10″W / 58.42333°N 134.56944°W / 58.42333; -134.56944 (Mendenhall Lake (Juneau))[1]
Primary inflows Mendenhall Glacier, Steep Creek, Nugget Creek
Primary outflows Mendenhall River
Basin countries United States of America
Max. width 1.8 miles (2.9 km)[1]
Surface elevation 52 ft (16 m)[1]

Mendenhall Lake is a lake in the Mendenhall Valley at the 1962 terminus of Mendenhall Glacier, 3 miles (4.8 km) North of the Juneau City and Borough Airport in the Coast Mountains. It is the source of the short Mendenhall River.[1]

Name

Like other geographic features with Mendenhall in their title, Mendenhall Lake is named for physicist and meteorologist Thomas Corwin Mendenhall.

Local name derived from the Mendenhall Glacier and published in 1962 by United States Geological Survey. In 1909, the lake was called McCush Lake by miners because Neil McCush had mining property near it (DeArmond, 1957, p. 31).[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mendenhall Lake



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