by CoastView | Sep 30, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use
Lomen & Company established a reindeer meatpacking facility in 1915 on Golovnin Bay near the Swedish Mission, about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Elim and 7.8 miles (12.5 km) southeast of Golovin, Alaska. Alaskan reindeer herding started in the early 1890s as a...
by CoastView | Sep 29, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines
Salt Chuck is a historical mining village at the head of Kasaan Bay on the eastern coast of Prince of Wales Island, about 39 miles (63 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 4.5 miles (7.3 km) southwest of Thorne Bay, Alaska. The local name was first published in 1943 by the...
by CoastView | Sep 28, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Developments, Islands, Land Use
Fire Island is about 5.5 miles (8.9 km) long, located at the head of Cook Inlet within the Municipality of Anchorage, about 24 miles (39 km) northwest of Hope and 9 miles (14.5 km) southwest of downtown Anchorage, Alaska. The island was named “Turnagain...
by CoastView | Sep 26, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Communities, Historical
Kivalina is a community located on a barrier island between the Chukchi Sea and Kivalina Lagoon, about 79 miles (127 km) northwest of Kotzebue and 72 miles (116 km) southeast of Point Hope, Alaska. In 1847, the Iñupiat village was located at the north end of the...
by CoastView | Sep 25, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Canneries, Historical, Islands
Port Vita is an abandoned herring reduction plant and saltery located on Raspberry Strait, on the northeastern coast of Raspberry Island, about 31 miles (50 km) northwest of Kodiak and 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Port Lions, Alaska. Raspberry Island is 18 miles (29...
by CoastView | Sep 23, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Developments, Embayments
Niblack is a historic mining community at the head of Niblack Anchorage, an estuary that extends west for 2.5 miles (4 km) off Moira Sound, on the southeast coast of Prince of Wales Island, about 28 miles (45 km) southwest of Ketchikan and 28 miles (45 km) southeast...
