KANATAK LAKE

lake in southwestern Alaska, U.S., south of Mount Becharof on the Alaska Peninsula. It is about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) long. Kanatak Creek flows through the lake and continues in a northeasterly direction about 4 miles (6.5 km) to Portage Bay. The village of Kanatak, at the head of Portage Bay west of Kanatak Creek, was a centre of oil-drilling activity in the 1930s but was practically abandoned when the drilling ended in the 1950s. The area is still known for fishing and trapping.