Jack London Lake
| Jack London Lake | |
|---|---|
| Озеро Джека Лондона (Russian) | |
| Location | Yagodninsky District Magadan Oblast, Russia |
| Coordinates | 62°04′49″N 149°31′43″E / 62.08028°N 149.52861°E |
| Lake type | freshwater lake, ribbon lake |
| Primary inflows | Purga River |
| Primary outflows | Kyuyel-Sien → Kolyma River |
| Catchment area | 221 km2 (85 sq mi) |
| Basin countries | Russia |
| Max. length | 10 km (6.2 mi) |
| Max. width | 2 km (1.2 mi) |
| Surface area | 14.4 km2 (5.6 sq mi) |
| Average depth | 50 m (160 ft) |
| Surface elevation | 803 m (2,635 ft) |
| Frozen | October to June |
| Islands | 4 |
Jack London Lake (Russian: Озеро Джека Лондона, romanized: Ozero Dzheka Londona) is a 14.5 km2 (5.6 sq mi) mountain lake located in the Yagodninsky District of Magadan Oblast, Russia.
It was named in 1932 in honor of American writer, journalist and socialist activist Jack London by Russian geologist P. Skornyakov, following the wish of Yuri Bilibin, the head of the first geological expedition to Kolyma, who had expressed the idea to name one of the yet unnamed geographical locations in the Far Northeast after the writer.