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Find out where the river Alph is.

The river Alph, located in an ice free region at the west of the Koettliz Glacier, initiates from Trough Lake and flows through Walcott Lake, Howchin Lake, and the Alph Lake. However, in the context of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Kubla Khan, the river Alph is introduced to focus on the vigour of the water body and to depict the contrasting images of the calmness and serenity of the natural surrounding and the noisy, active insurgency of the river Alph.


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