by CoastView | Feb 7, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers, Waterfalls
Paint River starts at the confluence of the Middle and South Forks and flows generally east for 17 miles (27 km), draining a watershed of 40,854 acres (16,533 ha), to Akjemguiga Cove in Kamishak Bay between McNeil Cove to the south and Amakdedulia Cove to the north,...
by CoastView | Feb 6, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Point Lay Village is a community at the mouth of the Kokolik River on Kasegaluk Lagoon, about 94 miles (152 km) southwest of Wainwright and 134 miles (216 km) northeast of Point Hope, Alaska. Kasegaluk Lagoon is isolated from the Chukchi Sea by a series of long thin...
by CoastView | Feb 5, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Islands, Land Use, Parks
Kiukpalik Island is 1.3 miles (2 km) long and 0.6 miles (1 km) wide and is part of Katmai National Park and Preserve, but situated 2 miles (3.2 km) offshore from the Alaska Peninsula in Shelikof Strait, about 112 miles (181 km) east of King Salmon and 72 miles (116...
by CoastView | Feb 2, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Islands, Natural History, Rivers
Solivik Island is an Arctic barrier island that extends southwest for 16.5 miles (27 km) from Icy Cape Pass in the north to Utukok Pass in the south and forms the northern portion of Kasegaluk Lagoon, about 69 miles (111 km) southwest of Wainwright and 28 miles (45...
by CoastView | Feb 1, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Amakdedulia Cove is an embayment about 2 miles (3.2 km) across on the western shore of Kamishak Bay in southwestern Cook Inlet, about 98 miles (158 km) northeast of King Salmon and 98 miles (158 km) southwest of Homer, Alaska. The name was reported in 1923 by K.F....
by CoastView | Jan 31, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Shelter Cabins
Kookoolik is a historical community, also known as Kukulik, located on Cape Kookoolik on the northern coast of Saint Lawrence Island, about 160 miles (258 km) southwest of Nome and 4 miles (6.5 km) east of Savoonga, Alaska. Kookoolik was one of several Saint Lawrence...