Lake Clark (Alaska)
Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:More citations needed Template:Infobox body of water Lake Clark (Denaʼina: Qizhjeh Vena) is a lake in southwest Alaska. It drains through Six Mile Lake and the Newhalen River into Iliamna Lake. The lake is about Template:Convert long and about Template:Convert wide.
Lake Clark was named for John W. Clark, chief of the Nushagak trading post and the first American non-Native to see the lake, when an expedition financed by a weekly magazine reached it in February 1891.<ref>Branson (2012), chapter 13</ref> The Dena'ina Athabascan name is Qizjeh Vena which means "place where people gather lake".<ref>Branson (2012), p.186</ref> The lake is within Lake Clark National Park and Preserve.