Information About

Ptarmigan Lake

Quick Facts

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Location

61 ° 51' 18.781" N,
141 ° 10' 11.518" W

Region

Wrangell-St. Elias NP

Nearest City

McCarthy

Tributary to

Ptarmigan Creek

Tributaries

Rock Lake,

Elevation

3533 ft (1076.86 m)

Ptarmigan Lake in Detail.

About

in course of Ptarmigan Creek, 2 mi. NE of Rock Lake and 64 mi. NE of McCarthy; Alaska Range

History

local name reported in 1908 by S. R. Capps, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) (Moffit and Knopf, 1910, pl. 1); applied to lake now called Rock Lake. application proposed in 1963 by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

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