Portage Lake
Portage Lake is a glacial lake in the Chugach National Forest of the U.S. state of Alaska. It sits in a long, heavily glaciated valley, and abuts the calving face of Portage Glacier at its southern end.Photo: steve lyon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel and Byron Glacier.
Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel
Tunnel
Photo: UED77, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Portage Glacier Highway, or Portage Glacier Road, is a highway located in the U.S. state of Alaska. The highway is made up of a series of roads, bridges, and tunnels that connect the Portage Glacier area of the Chugach National Forest and the city of Whittier to the Seward Highway. Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel is situated 1½ miles northeast of Portage Lake.
Byron Glacier
Glacier
Photo: Ianare, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Byron Glacier is situated 2½ miles southwest of Portage Lake.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whittier.
Whittier
Whittier is a small town in Alaska that is famous because all of its 272 residents live in one building.
Portage Lake
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Alaska, United States of America
- Category: body of water
- Location: Anchorage, Southcentral Alaska, Alaska, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Venetian—“Portage Lake” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Portage Lake (lanaw sa Estados Unidos, Alaska, Anchorage Municipality)”
- Cebuano: “Portage Lake”
- Chinese: “波蒂奇湖”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره پورتاج”
- French: “Lac Portage”
- French: “Portage Lake”
- German: “Portage Lake”
- Italian: “Lago Portage”
- Venetian: “lago Portage”
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