by CoastView | Mar 17, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Viekoda Bay is a deglaciated fjord that extends southeast for 18 miles (29 km) from Shelikof Strait on the northwestern coast of Kodiak Island, about 134 miles (216 km) southwest of Homer and 26 miles (42 km) west-northwest of Kodiak, Alaska. The name is from the...
by CoastView | Mar 15, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses
Cordova Rose is a landlocked barge that was converted to a guest lodge on the southern shore of Odiak Slough, a tidal embayment on Orca Inlet in Prince William Sound and adjacent to Eyak Lake, about 46 miles (74 km) south-southeast of Valdez and 0.5 miles (0.8 km)...
by CoastView | Mar 6, 2023 | 2023, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Headlands, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History, Parks
Cape Scott is a headland about 500 feet (150 m) high at the extreme northwestern point of Vancouver Island in Cape Scott Provincial Park, about 256 miles 412 km) south-southeast of Prince Rupert and 41 miles (66 km) west of Port Hardy, British Columbia. The promontory...
by CoastView | Mar 4, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Embayments, Natural History
Port William is a historical salmon cannery in an embayment on the southern coast of Shuyak Island that extends 0.5 miles (0.8 km) north from Shuyak Strait, between Port Lawrence to the west and Daylight Harbor to the east, about 88 miles (142 km) southwest of Homer...
by CoastView | Feb 28, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Kachemak, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
Grewingk Creek drains a glaciated watershed of 29,138 acres (11,792 ha) and flows generally northwest for 3.5 miles (5.6 km) from the terminus lake of the retreating Grewingk Glacier to the southeastern shore of Kachemak Bay, about 24 miles (39 km) northeast of...
by CoastView | Feb 18, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Polly Creek and Little Polly Creek drain a combined watershed of 16,113 acres (6,521 ha), on the southern flank of an unnamed ridge that extends southeast from the summit of Mount Redoubt, and flow generally south for 9 miles (14.5 km) and 8 miles (12.8 km)...
