Description
Located on the north shore Iliuk Arm Naknek Lake, on the Alaska Peninsula, in Katmai National Monument, 27 miles northwest of Mount Katmai; Aleutian Range. (AK-T1)
History
Named in 1919 by R.F. Griggs, National Geographic Society, for John Oliver La Gorce, 1880-1959, of the National Geographic Society. (Dictionary of Alaska Place Names, Orth, 1967))