Iliamna Lake
Oligotrophic lake; ice-covered from December to May
The Iliamna Lake ( Iliamna Lake also ) is a lake in the southwest of the U.S. state of Alaska on the Alaska Peninsula.
He is with an area of 2622 km ² the largest lake in Alaska and one of the largest in North America. The lake is 124 km long and up to 35 km wide. The outflow is the Kvichak River. The villages of Iliamna, Newhalen, Kokhanok and Pedro Bay on the shore of Iliamna Lake.
The lake is oligotrophic ( nutrient-poor ) and ice-covered from December to May. The east end of Iliamna Lake is deep up to 301 m, but has numerous small islands, while the west end is wide and shallow, and few islands has. In contrast to the neighboring Lake Clark the waters of Iliamna Lake is clear.
The name of the lake is probably athabaskischer of origin. All words ending in the suffix "na" are related to water. There is probably a reference to the size of the lake, but the exact origin is unclear.
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Monster from Iliamna Lake
The monster from Iliamna Lake is a modern legend. The " Iliamna Lake Monster " by locals referred to as " Illie " is a Kryptid, which, according to stories appearing in the Iliamna Lake. There is talk of sightings bishin to attacks on humans. The animal is three to nine meters (10 to 30 feet) long and have a square head, with which it should have also been attacked boats. A proof of the physical existence of this animal is so far yet to materialize.
History
Iliamna Lake Monster stories about the reasons to Tell the Aleutian Islands that feed the lake from fishing. Observation aircraft in the 1940s reported large fish whose shadow they had seen when flying over. In the 1950s, a large, aluminum -colored fish to have been observed, which coincides with the stories of the natives. 1979 offered the newspaper Anchorage Daily News $ 100,000 for those which provides evidence for the existence of Iliamna Lake Monster. The Discovery Channel funded in 2011 another hunt for the unknown animal.
Sightings
Theories
The Iliamna Lake Monster has certain parallels to Ogopogo, a similar Kryptid from Lake Okanogan in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Some contradict this hypothesis, since the sea monster in Lake Iliamna has no serpentine shape. The biologist and adventure filmmaker Jeremy Wade suggested that it is not a monster, but may have been a particularly great white sturgeon. According to the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission, a White Sturgeon in exceptional cases up to six feet long and over 100 years old. He is a fish that is staying close to the ground, which explains its rare sightings. However, so far no white sturgeon caught in Lake Iliamna. Other researchers believe that it could possibly be a Cadborosaurus. Newer theories deal with it, whether it is possibly an Schlafhai.