by CoastView | May 1, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Castle-Cape-1.mp3 Castle Cape extends about 10 miles (16 km) northeast from the Alaska Peninsula and forms the southern entrance to Chignik Bay, separating Castle Bay to the northwest from the...
by CoastView | Apr 29, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Port-Hobron-1.mp3 Port Hobron, an abandoned whaling station, sits on the south shore of a fjord of the same name on the north coast of Sitkalidak Island, about 6 miles (10 km) southeast of Old...
by CoastView | Apr 28, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Afognak.mp3 Afognak, located at the head of Marmot Bay on the southeast coast of Afognak Island in the Kodiak Archipelago, is a historic village abandoned after the 1964 tsunami, about 122...
by CoastView | Apr 25, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Bear-Cove.mp3 Bear Cove is a small embayment on the Kenai Peninsula that extends 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southeast from Kachemak Bay, between Bear Island to the south and Chugachik Island to the...
by CoastView | Apr 24, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Land Use, Shipwrecks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Nikiski-Wharf.mp3 Nikiski Terminal Wharf forms part of the Port of Nikiski petroleum facility in upper Cook Inlet on the west coast of the Kenai Peninsula at East Foreland, about 63 miles (101...
by CoastView | Apr 22, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Shearwater-Bay.mp3 Kadiak Fisheries operated a remote salmon cannery on the north shore of Shearwater Bay on Kodiak Island at Observation Point, from 1926 until 1964 when it was destroyed by a...
