by CoastView | Mar 22, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Mines, Natural History
Vindicator is a historical beach placer mine in the Alaska Peninsula Mining District situated on the western shore of Popof Island between Sand Point to the north and Red Cove to the south, about 260 miles (419 km) northeast of Dutch Harbor and 67 miles (108 km)...
by CoastView | Mar 21, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Diamond NN is a historic cannery in South Naknek at the mouth of the Naknek River that flows into Kvichak Bay, an arm of Bristol Bay, about 56 miles (90 km) southeast of Dillingham and 13 miles (21 km) west of King Salmon, Alaska. The salmon cannery was built by the...
by CoastView | Mar 20, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Pedersen Lagoon receives freshwater from proglacial lakes of the Addison and Pedersen glaciers that descend from the Harding Icefield in Kenai Fjords National Park on the western shore of Aialik Bay, about 64 miles (103 km) east-northeast of Homer and 19 miles (31 km)...
by CoastView | Mar 18, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Climate Change, Embayments, Islands, Natural History
Bodfish Island is part of the Jones Island barrier chain between Cottle Island to the east and Bertoncini Island to the west, separating Simpson Lagoon from the Beaufort Sea, about 178 miles (286 km) southeast of Utqiagvik and 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Deadhorse,...
by CoastView | Mar 16, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Kasilof River starts at the outlet of Tustumena Lake on the Kenai Peninsula and flows generally northwest for 17 miles (27 km) through the Kenai Lowland to Cook Inlet, draining a watershed of 93,275 acres (37,747 ha), about 51 miles (82 km) north-northeast of Homer...
by CoastView | Mar 13, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Natural History, Parks
Gilman Glacier starts at an elevation of roughly 6,000 feet (1,828 m)in the Fairweather Range of the Saint Elias Mountains and flows generally northwest for 7.5 miles (12 km) to Johns Hopkins Inlet in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 105 miles (169 km)...
