Lake Grosvenor
| Lake Grosvenor | ||
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| Geographical location | Alaska (USA) | |
| Tributaries | from Lake Coville , Hardscrabble Creek | |
| Drain | Grosvenor River → Savonoski River | |
| Data | ||
| Coordinates | 58 ° 41 ′ N , 155 ° 17 ′ W | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 33 m | |
| surface | 74 km² | |
| length | 30 km | |
| width | 3.5 km | |
Lake Grosvenor is a lake in the southwest of the US state Alaska on the western flank of the northern Aleutian chain .
The approximately 74 km² large and 33 m high lake lies entirely in the Katmai National Park . The 30 km long and 3.5 km wide elongated lake is oriented in an east-south-east direction. A 1400 m high mountain of the Aleutian chain rises in the northeast . The neighboring Lake Coville to the northwest has a short drain to Lake Grosvenor. At the junction is the Grosvenor Lodge . At the east- south- east end of the lake, Lake Grosvenor is drained over the 4.5 km long Grosvenor River to the Savonoski River . On the south shore of Lake Grosvenor is a portage to Naknek Lake, 1.7 km away .
The lake was named after Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (1875–1966), 1920–1954 chairman of the National Geographic Society .