Lake Coville
| Lake Coville | ||
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| Geographical location | Alaska (USA) | |
| Tributaries | American Creek | |
| Drain | → Lake Grosvenor | |
| Data | ||
| Coordinates | 58 ° 45 ′ N , 155 ° 36 ′ W | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 33 m | |
| surface | 32 km² | |
| length | 14.5 km | |
| width | 3.1 km | |
Lake Coville is a lake in the southwest of the US state Alaska on the western flank of the northern Aleutian chain , 12 km north of Naknek Lake .
The approximately 32 km² large and 33 m high lake is located entirely in the Katmai National Park . The lake is 32 km long and 3.1 km wide and faces southeast. A 700 m high mountain of the Aleutian chain rises to the west . American Creek flows into the northwestern end of the lake . In the southeast, a narrow strip of land separates the lake from neighboring Lake Grosvenor . Lake Coville is drained to this. Grosvenor Lodge is located between the two lakes .
The lake was named after Frederick Vernon Coville (1867-1937), an American botanist who was chairman of the Research Committee of the National Geographic Society between 1920 and 1937 .