by CoastView | Dec 27, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use
King Cove is a small community on the Alaska Peninsula located partially on a spit separating King Cove Bay and King Cove Lagoon, about 18 air miles (29 km) southeast of the village of Cold Bay, Alaska. King Cove Bay is 15 miles (24 km) across and lies between Cold...
by CoastView | Dec 22, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use
Funter Bay is on the west coast of the Mansfield Peninsula on Admiralty Island, about 32 miles (52 km) southeast of Gustavus and 14 miles (23 km) southwest of Juneau, Alaska. The bay was named in 1883 by William Healey Dall, of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, for...
by CoastView | Dec 8, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Pilot Point is a community on the eastern shore of Ugashik Bay, on the north coast of the Alaska Peninsula, 83 miles (134 km) south-southwest of King Salmon and 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Ugashik, Alaska. In 1889, this was a mixed Aleut and Yup’ik village with a...
by CoastView | Dec 2, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use
Todd is an abandoned cannery and a historical settlement on Lindenberg Harbor in Peril Strait, on the southern coast of Chichagof Island, 9 miles (15 km) west of Chatham Strait and 32 air miles (52 km) north-northeast of Sitka, Alaska. Lindenberg Harbor was named in...
by CoastView | Oct 17, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Best of 2022, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
Portlock is a historical salmon cannery in Port Chatham, an embayment on the southern coast of the Kenai Peninsula, about 102 miles (164 km) north-northeast of Kodiak and 10 miles (16 km) south-southeast of Port Graham, Alaska. Portlock was named for Nathaniel...
by CoastView | Oct 16, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Canneries, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
The Canadian Fishing Company operates fish processing plants on Prince Rupert Harbour at Seal Cove and at George Hills Way, about 89 miles (143 km) southeast of Ketchikan and 72 miles (116 km) west-southwest of Terrace, British Columbia. George Hills Way is named...
