by CoastView | Aug 2, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Chemical Pollution, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Shipwrecks
Ocean Bay is on the southeast shore of Sitkalidak Island in the Kodiak Archipelago, about 56 miles (90 km) southwest of Kodiak and 9 miles (15 km) southeast of the village of Old Harbor, Alaska. The Kodiak Archipelago is in the western Gulf of Alaska and has about 32...
by CoastView | Jul 31, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Glaciers, Islands, Land Use, Mines, Natural History, Rivers
The Copper River watershed drains about 24,000 square miles (62,000 sq km) in the Wrangell, Chugach, and Saint Elias mountains and the mainstem flows for about 290 miles (470 km) to the Gulf of Alaska where it creates a wide delta, about 195 miles west-northwest of...
by CoastView | Jul 29, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Climate Change, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Islands, Parks, Shipwrecks
Cenotaph Island is approximately in the middle of Lituya Bay, a fjord formed primarily by the Crillon and Lituya glaciers in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 117 miles (189 km) west-northwest of Juneau and 97 miles (156 km) southeast of Yakutat, Alaska....
by CoastView | Jul 27, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Best of 2021, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands
Larsen Bay is a small village and historical salmon cannery on Larsen Bay, an embayment that extends 6 miles (9.6 km) off of Uyak Bay on the west coast of Kodiak Island, about 125 miles (202 km) southeast of King Salmon and 58 miles (94 km) west-southwest of Kodiak,...
by CoastView | Jul 25, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Islands, Parks, Rivers
Tuxedni Bay is an estuary that extends southeast for 14 miles (23 km) from the mouth of Tuxedni River to Cook Inlet at Chisik Island, about 59 miles (95 km) northwest of Homer and 57 miles (92 km) southwest of Kenai, Alaska. The Dena’ina name for the bay was...
by CoastView | Jul 24, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical
Haines is a small Southeast Alaska community on the Chilkat Peninsula at the north end of Lynn Canal between Chilkat Inlet and Chilkoot Inlet, about 75 miles (121 km) north-northwest of Juneau and 15.5 miles (25 km) south-southwest of Skagway, Alaska. The area was...
