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)...
by CoastView | Dec 21, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Headlands, Land Use, Natural History
Kingigin is an Iñupiat village, also known as Wales, situated at the mouth of Village Creek, on a series of ancient beach ridges separating Lopp Lagoon to the east from the Bering Strait to the west, on the Seward Peninsula at Cape Prince of Wales, about 73 miles (118...
by CoastView | Dec 20, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Chenik was a historical community at the mouth of Chenik Creek, between Chenik Lake to the west and Chenik Head to the east, on the west shore of Kamishak Bay, about 98 miles (158 km) northeast of King Salmon and 98 miles (158 km) southwest of Homer, Alaska. The...
by CoastView | Dec 18, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Squaw Harbor is a historical cannery and fishing village situated on the north shore of Baralof Bay on the east coast of Unga Island in the Shumagin Islands, about 258 miles (415 km) east-northeast of Unalaska and 7 miles (11 km) south-southwest of Sand Point, Alaska....
by CoastView | Dec 15, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Naknek is a community situated on a bluff overlooking the northern bank of the mouth of the Naknek River, at Kvichak Bay which forms the northeastern arm of Bristol Bay, about 56 miles (90 km) southeast of Dillingham and 13 miles (21 km) west-northwest of King Salmon,...
by CoastView | Dec 14, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Stebbins is a community in southern Norton Sound situated on a small sand spit along the northern shore of Saint Michael Island at Cape Stephens, which is in the lee of Stuart Island to the northwest and separated by a channel 1 mile (1.6 km) wide named Stephens Pass,...
