Alaska's Lake Monster Just Got PROVEN — And It's More Terrifying Than Jaws

Alaska's Lake Monster Just Got PROVEN — And It's More Terrifying Than Jaws There is a lake in southwest Alaska that most people in the continental United States have never heard of, and everything about it is larger than you are expecting.Lake Iliamna sits 77 miles inland from the Bering Sea, in wilderness so remote that no road reaches most of its shoreline. The nearest communities are accessible primarily by bush plane. At 77 miles long and 22 miles wide, with depths exceeding a thousand feet in places, it holds enough water to swallow entire cities beneath its surface. It is the largest lake in Alaska, the second largest freshwater lake entirely within United States borders, and it is almost entirely unstudied. To someone flying over it in a bush plane, it looks like everything Alaska's wilderness is supposed to look like. Cold, clear, surrounded by mountains and tundra, pristine in the way that only genuinely remote places still are.