by CoastView | Sep 22, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Waterfalls
Cliff Falls is the outlet for Cliff Lake situated at the head of Deep Cove, an embayment on the east coast of Baranof Island with an entrance about 1.1 miles (1.8 km) west of Patterson Point, about 41 miles (66 km) south-southeast of Sitka and 17.5 miles (28 km)...
by CoastView | Sep 15, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Land Use
Point Spencer is the north end of a spit about 19 miles (31 km) long, between the Bering Sea and Port Clarence, on the Seward Peninsula, about 14 miles (23 km) west of Teller, Alaska. The point was named in 1827 by Captain Frederick W. Beechey for Captain Robert...
by CoastView | Sep 10, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Mush Bay is the local name for a shallow embayment on the western shore of East Arm Uganik Bay, probably named after Mush Lake, on the west coast of Kodiak Island, 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Larsen Bay and 40 miles (65 km) west-southwest of Kodiak, Alaska. Mush...
by CoastView | Sep 3, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Cape Cleare is a headland on the southwest end of Montague Island, at the entrance to Montague Strait that leads to Prince William Sound, about 60 miles (97 km) southeast of Seward, Alaska. The cape was named by Captain Nathaniel Portlock in 1787. In 1791, Captain...
by CoastView | Aug 27, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Best of 2022, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Bird Point is on the north shore of Turnagain Arm in Cook Inlet, 4 miles (6.5 km) southwest of the community of Bird Creek, and 7.5 miles (13 km) west of Girdwood, Alaska. The local name was first reported in 1898 by Captain Edwin Glenn during explorations for the...
by CoastView | Aug 23, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Anchor River is on the Kenai Peninsula and flows west for about 30 miles (48 km) from Bald Mountain to a lagoon at Anchor Point on the eastern shore of Cook Inlet, at the northern edge of Kachemak Bay, about 14 miles (23 km) northwest of Homer, Alaska. The middle...
