Dall Lake is a 24-mile-long (37 km) lake

Lake

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 in the U.S. state

U.S. state

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 of Alaska

Alaska

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. It is located 70 miles (112.7 km) southwest of Bethel

Bethel, Alaska

Bethel is a city located near the west coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, west of Anchorage. Accessible only by air and river, Bethel is the main port on the Kuskokwim River and is an administrative and transportation hub for the 56 villages in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.Bethel is the largest...

, and is named for naturalist W. H. Dall

W. H. Dall

William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...

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Local Knowledge of Dall Lake

The Yupik village of Chefornak is down stream from Dall lake. The natives go to the lake to fish, hunt, pick berries, and search for fossilized bones. It is not well known for fishing, but it has been reported that a crustacean resembling a triops is found in the lake during the summer.