Description
Curlew Lake is located onKenai Penin, NW of Snag Lake, 28 mi. NE of Kenai, Cook Inlet Low. 0.8 mile long.
History
Named about 1963 by officials of Kenai National Moose Range, probably for the Bristle-Thighed Curlew (Numenius tahitiensis), a bird known as a migrant between Alaska and the South Pacific islands (Gabrielson and Lincoln, 1959, p. 347).