Information About

Katmai River

Quick Facts

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Location

58 ° 1' 49.001" N,
154 ° 56' 21.998" W

Region

Kodiak Island

Nearest City

Newhalen

Length

20 mi (32.19 km)

Katmai River in Detail.

About

heads at glacier terminus on Alaska Peninsula, in Katmai National Monument, flows SW to Katmai Bay, 16 mi. S of Mount Katmai, Aleutian Range

History

Eskimo name reported as "R(eka) Katmay" by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 22) Imperial Russian Navy (IRN) and as "Katmai River" in 1917 by R. F. Griggs, National Geographic Society.