Sandy Lake is a lake on the
Alaska Peninsula. The lake is located between the Upper Sandy River and Lower Sandy River, which drains into the Bering Sea. It lies 25 miles north-east of
Port Moller Airport and is on the boundary of the
Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge.
Mount Veniaminof lies to the west of the lake.
It is fed by Upper Sandy River which offers a spawning habitat for
sockeye salmon as it enters the lake. Based on the surface area of the lake it has been estimated that the annual production of sockeye salmon is 119,000, however the model used for this estimate may not be appropriate for shallow lakes on the Alaskan peninsular such as Sandy Lake.
Steelhead trout
Steelhead, or occasionally steelhead trout, is the common name of the anadromous form of the coastal rainbow trout or redband trout (O. m. gairdneri). Steelhead are native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific basin in Northeast Asia and ...
have also been found in the lake.
The lake features a 10-foot terrace of
lacustrine deposits
Lacustrine deposits are sedimentary rock formations which formed in the bottom of ancient lakes. A common characteristic of lacustrine deposits is that a river or stream channel has carried sediment into the basin. Lacustrine deposits form in all ...
.
References
Lakes of Alaska
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