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Mendenhall Lake

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in the background. For reference, the glacier is to the left and visitor center to the right.
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Like other geographic features with Mendenhall in their title, Mendenhall Lake is named for
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by miners because Neil McCush had mining property near it (DeArmond, 1957, p. 31).
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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mendenhall Lake
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Local name derived from the Mendenhall Glacier and published in 1962 by
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The lake, mostly frozen over, and the Mendenhall Glacier
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Melting ice on Mendenhall Lake near the start of the
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Location of Mendenhall Lake in Alaska, USA.
Location of Mendenhall Lake in Alaska, USA.
Juneau, Alaska
58°25′24″N 134°34′10″W / 58.42333°N 134.56944°W / 58.42333; -134.56944 (Mendenhall Lake (Juneau))
Primary inflows
Mendenhall Glacier
Nugget Creek
Primary outflows
Mendenhall River
Basin
proglacial
lake
Mendenhall Valley
Mendenhall Glacier
Juneau Airport
Coast Mountains
Mendenhall River
Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area
Tongass National Forest
physicist
meteorologist
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall
United States Geological Survey

Mendenhall River
Nugget Falls


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