Lake Schrader is a physical feature (lake) in North Slope Borough.
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Feature Name: | Lake Schrader |
Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
Feature Type: | Physical |
Class: | Lake |
Description: | Northernmost of the Neruokpuk Lakes in the Brooks Range, Franklen Mts. N of and connected with, Lake Peters, 17 mi. NW of Mount Michelson. |
History: | "Named by E. de K. Leffingwell for Frank Charles Schrader (1860-1944), U.S. Geological Survey geologist, who accompanied W.J. Peters on a reconnassiance of northern Alaska. The lake originally was named Lake Peters by Leffingwell (1919, -. 57) who wrote, ""a narrow channel which heads a few hundred yards to Lake Peters. Here the high mountains cease, and the lake lies in an open basin whose slopes rise only a few hundred feet above the water."" Leffingwell's map (pl. 1), however, shows the names transposed, and it is this application that influcenced subsequent maps and local usage." |
Borough: | North Slope Borough |
Latitude: | 69.3862915039 |
Longitude: | -144.942855835 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Lake Schrader: Lake Schrader.
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