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A man dip netting on the Copper River, undated photo by John Nathan Cobb (died 1930) The Copper River is approximately 290 miles (470 km) long. [10] It drops an average of about 12 feet per mile (2.3 m/km), and drains more than 24,000 square miles (62,000 km 2)—an area the size of West Virginia.
Kenai River bank. The Kenai River [Kee-nye] is a meltwater river that drains the central Kenai Peninsula region. Its source is the Kenai Lake. [2] Near Cooper Landing, the lake narrows to form the river. About 12 miles (19 km) from the lake, the river passes through Kenai Canyon for about 2 miles (3.2 km) of fast-flowing whitewater rapids.
The Kenai Peninsula (Dena'ina: Yaghenen) is a large peninsula jutting from the coast of Southcentral Alaska.The name Kenai (/ ˈ k iː n aɪ /, KEE-ny) is derived from the word "Kenaitze" or "Kenaitze Indian Tribe", the name of the Native Athabascan Alaskan tribe, the Kahtnuht’ana Dena’ina ("People along the Kahtnu (Kenai River)"), who historically inhabited the area. [1]
Beaver Creek (Dena'ina: Hkayitnu) is a stream located on the western portion of the Kenai Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska.Beaver Creek flows approximately 10 miles from its source at Beaver Lake in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge to the Kenai River, approximately 4 river miles from the mouth of that river in the City of Kenai at Cook Inlet.
The Russian River (Russian: Рашен-Ривер) is a 13-mile-long (21 km) river on the Kenai Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska. It flows northward from Upper Russian Lake in the Kenai Mountains through Lower Russian Lake, draining into the Kenai River near the town of Cooper Landing. The native Denaina people called this river Chunuk'tnu ...
Kenai Lake (Dena'ina: Sqilan Bena) is a large, "zig-zag" shaped lake [2] on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. The lake forms the headwaters of the Kenai River , [ 3 ] and is itself a destination for fishing and other outdoor activity.
Kenai is located at (60.558738, −151.229616), [1] on the west side of the Kenai Peninsula near the outlet of the Kenai River to the Cook Inlet of the Pacific According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 35.5 square miles (92 km 2 ), of which, 29.9 square miles (77 km 2 ) of it is land and 5.6 square miles (15 km ...
The park covers an area of 669,984 acres (1,046.9 sq mi; 2,711.3 km 2) [1] on the Kenai Peninsula in south-central Alaska, west of the town of Seward. The park contains the Harding Icefield, one of the largest ice fields in the United States, and is named for the numerous fjords carved by glaciers moving down the mountains from the ice field.