Alaska Gazetteer
Shainin Lake is a physical feature (lake) in North Slope Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Shainin Lake |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Lake |
| Description: | On the N slope of the Brooks Range, in the course of Alapah Creek, W of Mount Wachsmuth, 22 mi NE of Anaktuvuk Pass, Arctic Slope. |
| History: | Named by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) geologists in 1951 for Vincent E. Shainin, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) geologist, who drowned in this lake in 1950. This Eskimo name for this lake is Kanayut (Rausch, 1951, p. 150). |
| Borough: | North Slope Borough |
| Latitude: | 68.3398284912 |
| Longitude: | -151.061553955 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Shainin Lake: Shainin Lake.
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