by CoastView | Mar 17, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, March 2023, Natural History
Viekoda Bay is a deglaciated fjord that extends southeast for 18 miles (29 km) from Shelikof Strait on the northwestern coast of Kodiak Island, about 134 miles (216 km) southwest of Homer and 26 miles (42 km) west-northwest of Kodiak, Alaska. The name is from the...
by CoastView | Mar 15, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, March 2023
Cordova Rose is a landlocked barge that was converted to a guest lodge on the southern shore of Odiak Slough, a tidal embayment on Orca Inlet in Prince William Sound and adjacent to Eyak Lake, about 46 miles (74 km) south-southeast of Valdez and 0.5 miles (0.8 km)...
by CoastView | Mar 13, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Developments, Embayments, Kachemak, Land Use, March 2023
Sadie Cove is a deglaciated fjord that extends generally northwest for 6.4 miles (10 km) from the mouth of the Sadie River to Eldred Passage on the southeastern shore of Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, about 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Homer and 10 miles (16...
by CoastView | Mar 11, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, March 2023, Mines
Kensington is a complex of underground mines and associated milling facilities on the southern flank of Lions Head Mountain in the Kakuhan Range between Lynn Canal to the west and Berners Bay to the east, about 47 miles (76 km) west-northwest of Juneau and 28 miles...
by CoastView | Mar 10, 2023 | Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, March 2023
Ship Cove is on the southern shore of Port Conclusion, an embayment at the southern tip of Baranof Island that extends south-southwest for 3 miles (4.8 km) from Chatham Strait, about 60 miles (97 km) south-southeast of Sitka and 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of Port...
by CoastView | Mar 8, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, March 2023, Natural History
Old Chenega is a historical village at the head of Chenega Cove on the southern tip of Chenega Island in western Prince William Sound, which is part of the traditional territory of the Chugach Sugpiaq people, about 82 miles (132 km) west-southwest of Cordova and 40...