by CoastView | Aug 6, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Islands
Stockdale Harbor is on the northwest coast of Montague Island in Prince William Sound, about 62 miles (100 km) southeast of Whittier and 54 miles (87 km) southwest of Cordova, Alaska. In 1776, Nathaniel Portlock joined HMS Discovery as master’s mate under the...
by CoastView | Jul 28, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Best of 2021, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Historical, Land Use, Oregon, Rivers, Shipwrecks
Camp Castaway is a historical site on North Spit of Coos Bay, a sandy, vegetated peninsula separating the estuary of the Coos River from the Pacific Ocean, about 3.8 miles (6 km) west of North Bend and 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Charleston, Oregon. The spit was the site...
by CoastView | Jul 17, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands
Alaska Whaling Company built a whaling station in 1912 on the south shore of Akutan Harbor on Akutan Island, about 34 miles (55 km) northeast of Dutch Harbor and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west-southwest of the village of Akutan, Alaska. It was the only whaling station in the...
by CoastView | Jul 6, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Communities, Freshwater, Historical, Rivers
Kenai River flows into Cook Inlet on the western shore of the Kenai Peninsula, about 65 miles (105 km) southwest of Anchorage and at the community of Kenai, Alaska. In June 1787, Stepan Zaikov on Saint PavelĀ of the Lebedev-Lastochkin Company established a post at the...
by CoastView | Apr 23, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Sinuk River starts from a series of deglaciated cirques at an elevation of 1,890 feet (576 m) on the west flank of Tigaraha Mountain on the Seward Peninsula, and flows generally southwest for 44 miles (71 km), draining a watershed of 190,572 acres (77,122 ha), to the...
by CoastView | Apr 21, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Goodnews Bay is a Central Yup’ik village at the mouth of the Goodnews River where it enters Goodnews Bay, about 117 miles (189 km) south of Bethel and 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Platinum, Alaska. The embayment is about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Cape...
