by CoastView | Sep 6, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Sitka is a community situated on Sitka Sound on the west coast of Baranof Island, about 185 miles (298 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 95 miles (153 km) southwest of Juneau, Alaska. In 1775, when competing European interests were searching the Pacific Northwest for...
by CoastView | Sep 4, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Akutan Airport is a State of Alaska owned public-use airport on Akun Island that serves the community of Akutan which is 6 miles (10 km) west-southwest across Akutan Bay on Akutan Island, about 766 miles (1,235 km) southwest of Anchorage and 44 miles (71 km) northeast...
by CoastView | Sep 2, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Shipwrecks
Chil Bo San No. 6 is a shipwreck on Spray Cape, a conspicuous headland on the west coast of Unalaska Island between Skan Bay to the north and Pumicestone Bay to the south, about 85 miles (137 km) northeast of Nikolski and 32 miles (52 km) southwest of Dutch Harbor,...
by CoastView | Aug 31, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands
Old Harbor is a small Alutiiq community situated on the western shore of Sitkalidak Strait that separates Sitkalidak Island from Kodiak Island, about 48 miles (77 km) southwest of Kodiak and 40 miles (64 km) northeast of Akhiok, Alaska. The Alutiiq name for the...
by CoastView | Aug 30, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Mines
Hollis is a small community on Twelvemile Arm of Kasaan Bay, north of Cat Island, near the center of Prince of Wales Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 41 miles (66 km) west-northwest of Ketchikan and 20 miles (32 km) east of Craig, Alaska....
by CoastView | Aug 28, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Shelter Cabins
Taku Harbor is a historical community and the site of an abandoned cannery in a small embayment on the eastern shore of Stephens Passage near Taku Inlet, about 86 miles (138 km) northeast of Sitka and 22 miles (35 km) southeast of Juneau, Alaska. Taku Harbor is named...