by CoastView | Jun 15, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Historical, Islands, Lighthouses
WLV-196 Umatilla was the last lightship to mark Umatilla Reef off Washington state and in 2005 was moored on the north shore of Pennock Island in Southeast Alaska, about 2.75 miles (4.4 km) northwest of Saxman and 0.75 miles (1.2 km) southwest of Ketchikan, Alaska....
by CoastView | Jun 13, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Islands, Natural History, Parks
Mount Shishaldin is a volcano on Unimak Island that rises over 9,000 ft (2800 m) directly from the Pacific Ocean and is the highest of several volcanos on the island, about 120 miles (194 km) northeast of Dutch Harbor and 24 miles (39 km) west-southwest of False Pass,...
by CoastView | Jun 12, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Communities, Embayments, Historical
Chickaloon Bay is located on the Kenai Peninsula, about 46 miles (74 km) northeast of Kenai and 22 miles (35 km) south and across Turnagain Arm from Anchorage, Alaska. The first Europeans to explore this upper section of Cook Inlet were Russian fur traders employed by...
by CoastView | Jun 11, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, British Columbia, Historical, Natural History, Rivers
Kakwan Point is on the north bank of the Stikine River that starts in British Columbia and flows northwest and south for 330 miles (532 km) across the Alaska-Canada boundary to Eastern Passage, about 26 miles (42 km) southeast of Petersburg and 2 miles (3 km) north of...
by CoastView | Jun 9, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical
Teller is an Iñupiat village located at the base of a spit separating Port Clarence Bay from Grantley Harbor, about 59 miles (95 km) northwest of Nome and 6 miles (10 km) southeast of Brevig Mission, Alaska. The present village of Teller is on the southern shore of...
by CoastView | Jun 7, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands
Nuchek is the site of a historical village and Russian trading post on Constantine Harbor at Port Etches on Hinchinbrook Island in Prince William Sound, about 56 miles (90 km) south-southwest of Valdez and 35 miles (56 km) southwest of Cordova, Alaska. The village was...
