Description
Kvichak River is located heads in Iliamna Lake, flows SW to Kvichak Bay at Kogging, on Alaska Peninsula, 9 mi. N of Naknek, Bristol Bay Low.
History
Eskimo name reported in 1828 by Captain Lutke (1836, map 14), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), as "Riviere Bristol or Kvitchak." The spelling "Kvichak" was given by U.S. Bureau of Fisheries (USBF) on an 1888 map.