Naknelk Lake

Naknek Lake lies on the northern Alaska Peninsula and drains west through the Naknek River to Bristol Bay. Salmon enter its waters to spawn, and the lake and its tributaries formed part of a long-inhabited landscape. By the early nineteenth century, Alutiiq-speaking people known as the Severnovsk lived near the Savonoski River at the eastern end of the lake, while the Yup’ik-speaking Aglurmiut inhabited the lower Naknek drainage.