Kvichak River
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The Kvichak River is a river in southwestern Alaska, located at the conjunction of the Alaska Peninsula, to the Alaska mainland at about With headwaters in Iliamna Lake, it drains the lake into Kvichak Bay, an arm of Bristol Bay. The river is about 97 km (60 miles) long.
Historically, the river was navigated and subsistence fished by local Alaska Natives. The name of the river means from- or up to- great water, a reference to Iliamna Lake, Alaska's largest freshwater lake. The name persisted despite being briefly re-named the Bristol River by British explorer Captain James Cook in 1778.
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