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Mendenhall Lake
Frozen Lake of Juneau's Mendenhall Glacier.JPG
The lake, mostly frozen over, and the Mendenhall Glacier
Location of Mendenhall Lake in Alaska, USA.
Location of Mendenhall Lake in Alaska, USA.
Mendenhall Lake
Location in Alaska
Location of Mendenhall Lake in Alaska, USA.
Location of Mendenhall Lake in Alaska, USA.
Mendenhall Lake
Location in North America
Location Juneau, Alaska
Coordinates 58°25′24″N 134°34′10″W / 58.42333°N 134.56944°W / 58.42333; -134.56944 (Mendenhall Lake (Juneau))
Primary inflows Mendenhall Glacier, Steep Creek, Nugget Creek
Primary outflows Mendenhall River
Basin countries United States
Max. width 1.8 miles (2.9 km)
Surface elevation 52 ft (16 m)

Mendenhall Lake is a proglacial lake in the Mendenhall Valley at the 1962 terminus of Mendenhall Glacier, three miles (4.8 km) north of the Juneau Airport in the Coast Mountains. It is the source of the short Mendenhall River. The lake is included in the Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area of the Tongass National Forest.

Name

Like other geographic features with Mendenhall in their title, Mendenhall Lake is named for physicist and meteorologist Thomas Corwin Mendenhall.

Local name derived from the Mendenhall Glacier and published in 1962 by United States Geological Survey. In 1909, the lake was called McCush Lake by miners because Neil McCush had mining property near it (DeArmond, 1957, p. 31).

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