Lake Nerka in Dillingham Borough AK

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Lake Nerka, Dillingham Borough, Alaska

Lake Nerka is a physical feature (lake) in Dillingham Borough.

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Feature Name: Lake Nerka
Category: Alaska physical, cultural and historic features
Feature Type: Physical
Class: Lake
Description: extends S from Akulukpak River to River Bay, 30 mi. N of Dillingham, Kulbuck-Kuskokwim Mts.
History: "So named in 1910 by U.S. Bureau of Fisheries (USBF) because the lake is a great spawning ground of the red or blueback salmon (Nerka). The Eskimo name of the lake, ""Agulukpak,"" meaning ""big aguluk,"" was obtained in 1898 as ""Agouloukpak"" from A. Mittendorf, a local trader, by J. E. Spurr and W. S. Post, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). This is probably the same lake called ""Pamiek"" by Captain M. D. Tebenkov (1852, map 4), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN)."
Borough: Dillingham Borough
Latitude: 59.5158653259
Longitude: -158.982833862

Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Lake Nerka: Lake Nerka.


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