Description
Owl Lake is located on Kenai Peninsula, 2.6 mi. SW of Swanson Lake and 30 mi. NE of Kenai, Cook Inlet Low.
History
Named about 1963 by officials of Kenai National Moose Range, probably for Richardson's Owl or the Arctic Saw-whet (Cryptoglaux funerea richardsoni), an owl known to Alaskan Eskimos as "the blind one," because it is almost completely blinded by sunlight, (Pearson, 1944, pt. 2, p. 106).