by CoastView | Jan 7, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Kachemak, Natural History
Kasitsna Bay Laboratory is a marine research facility located on a shallow embayment about 1.2 miles (1.9 km) wide, about 12 miles (19 km) south of Homer and 6.3 miles (10 km) northeast of Seldovia, Alaska. The name is from the Dena’ina language and was originally...
by CoastView | Dec 30, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
McLean Arm Bay is a narrow inlet that extends 6.5 miles (10.5 km) west from Clarence Strait, on the southeast coast of Prince of Wales Island, about 40 miles (65 km) southwest of Ketchikan and 40 miles (65 km) southeast of Hydaburg, Alaska. The inlet was named in 1885...
by CoastView | Dec 29, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Best of 2022, Biodiversity, Canneries, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Natural History
Snug Harbor is a historical cannery located along a bight on the west coast of Chisik Island, at the southern end of Tuxedni Channel, on the western shore of Cook Inlet, about 51 miles (82 km) northwest of Homer and 56 miles (90 km) southwest of Kenai, Alaska. Chisik...
by CoastView | Dec 25, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
Bootlegger Cove, also known as Little Jakolof Cove, is the local name for a small shallow embayment on the southeastern shore of Kachemak Bay, about 12 miles (19 km) south of Homer and 7.6 miles (12 km) northwest of Seldovia, Alaska. The cove is surrounded by private...
by CoastView | Dec 18, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Kachemak, Natural History
China Poot Bay is a lagoon that dries at low tide to expose a tidal flat 2.5 miles (4 km) wide, located on the southeastern shore of Kachemak Bay, 15.5 miles (25 km) northeast of Seldovia and 9.5 miles (15 km) southeast of Homer, Alaska. The lagoon is separated from...
by CoastView | Dec 15, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Islands
Coco Harbor is an estuary that extends west for 3 miles (4.8 km) from Baldy Bay, off Tlevak Strait, on the east coast of Dall Island, Alaska. Baldy Bay was first reported by E.F. Dickins in 1907, and Coco Harbor was first published on charts in 1914 by U.S. Coast and...
