by CoastView | Sep 13, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Canneries, Historical, Islands
Port Wakefield is an abandoned cannery on the east coast of Raspberry Island, about 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Kodiak and 14 miles (23 km) north-northwest of Port Lions, Alaska. The facility was named for Lowell Alvin Wakefield who is regarded as the founder of the...
by CoastView | Sep 11, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Embayments, Waterfalls
Red Bluff Bay is a fjord about 4 miles (6.5 km) long and 0.3 miles (05. km) wide on the east coast of Baranof Island, opening into Chatham Strait, about 70 miles (113 km) west of Petersburg and 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Sitka, Alaska. The fjord has two basins...
by CoastView | Sep 9, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Embayments, Rivers
Twentymile River starts from a series of small unnamed glaciers and snowfields in the western Chugach Mountains and flows generally south for 10 miles (16 km) where it joins Glacier River, and then flows another 5 miles (8 km) southwest to Turnagain Arm, about 12...
by CoastView | Sep 7, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Embayments, Rivers
North Arm Salt Chuck is at the head of North Arm, an estuary about 5 miles (8 km) long at the end of Duncan Canal on Kupreanof Island, about 110 miles (177 km) southeast of Juneau and 13 miles (21 km) west of Petersburg, Alaska. The local name was recorded in 1960 by...
by CoastView | Sep 6, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Rivers
Sagavanirktok River, also known as the Sag River, starts between Endicott and Philip Smith Mountains in the Brooks Range and flows north for 110 miles (180 km) to the Beaufort Sea, about 105 miles (170 km) west of Kaktovik and 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Deadhorse,...
by CoastView | Sep 4, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Embayments, Glaciers
South Sawyer Glacier starts in British Columbia and flows northwest for 31 miles (50 km) to the head of Tracy Arm, about 73 miles (118 km) north of Petersburg and 56 miles (90 km) southeast of Juneau, Alaska. The glacier was named in 1889 by Commander H.B. Mansfield...
