by CoastView | Jan 15, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History
Goddard is a historic settlement situated in Hot Springs Bay on the west coast of Baranof Island, about 92 miles (148 km) west of Petersburg and 15 miles (24 km) south of Sitka, Alaska. Russian fur hunters probably established the site in 1800 during the eastward...
by CoastView | Jan 12, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Hunter Bay is the estuary for several watersheds that support important sockeyes salmon populations and the site of a historical salmon cannery on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island near the abandoned village of Klinkwan, about 89 miles (143 km) northwest of...
by CoastView | Jan 11, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Campbell Creek starts at the confluence of the North and South forks in Campbell Park on the western flank of the Chugach Mountains and flows generally southwest for 10 miles (16 km) through the city of Anchorage to Campbell Lake, and the lake outflow then enters...
by CoastView | Jan 10, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Naukati Bay is a community at the site of a former logging camp and log transfer facility situated on a peninsula on the western coast of Prince of Wales Island between Little Naukati Bay to the northwest, Kaikli Cove to the northeast, Naukati Bay to the east, and...
by CoastView | Jan 9, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Islands, Land Use, Mines
Calder is a mining camp for a historic marble quarry and present-day limestone mine situated at the mouth of Marble Creek on Shakan Strait near the entrance to El Capitan Passage on Prince of Wales Island, about 92 miles (148 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 12 miles...
by CoastView | Jan 8, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Land Use, Mines, Natural History, Rivers
Deering is a community situated on a barrier spit at the mouth of the Inmachuk River on Kotzebue Sound on the northern coast of the Seward Peninsula between Cape Deceit to the west and Ninemile Point to the east, about 155 miles (250 km) east-northeast of Point Hope...
