by CoastView | Jan 3, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Land Use, Mines, Rivers
Kiwalik is a historical Iñupiat hunting and fishing camp, that became a major logistical base for mining activities in the Candle area, situated on a spit between Kawalik Lagoon to the south and Spafarief Bay to the north on the northeast coast of the Seward...
by CoastView | Jan 2, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Washington
Diamond Point is a community on the northeast tip of the Miller Peninsula which forms part of the Olympic Peninsula on the Strait of Juan de Fuca at the entrance to Discovery Bay, about 44 miles (71 km) northwest of Seattle and 7.5 miles (12 km) west-southwest of Port...
by CoastView | Jan 1, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Headlands, Land Use, Natural History
Point Possession is a headland on the northern shore of the Kenai Peninsula near the confluence of Cook Inlet and Turnagain Arm, about 44 miles (71 km) northeast of Kenai and 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Anchorage, Alaska. The point was named in 1778 by Captain James...
by CoastView | Dec 26, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Nash Harbor is a historic settlement situated at the outlet of a lagoon on the south shore of an embayment also named Nash Harbor bounded by Cape Algonquin to the west and Chingeeruk Point to the east, on the north coast of Nunivak Island, about 96 miles (155 km)...
by CoastView | Dec 23, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Saxman is a community on the west coast of Revillagigedo Island on Tongass Narrows across from Pennock Island, about 86 miles (138 km) northwest of Prince Rupert and 3 miles (5 km) southwest of Ketchikan, Alaska. The community is named after Samuel A. Saxman, a...
by CoastView | Dec 22, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Espenberg is a historic Iñupiaq settlement and present-day fish camp at Cape Espenberg, a peninsula composed of a series of dune-covered beach ridges on the Chukchi Sea coast of the Seward Peninsula that extends eastward into Kotzebue Sound, about 63 miles (101 km)...
