by CoastView | Feb 7, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Excursion Inlet is an embayment that extends 11 miles (18 km) north-northwest from the northern coast of Icy Strait to the mouth of Excursion River, about 38 miles (61 km) west-northwest of Juneau and 9.5 miles (15 km) east of Gustavus, Alaska. The bay was likely...
by CoastView | Feb 6, 2023 | 2023, British Columbia, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use
Butedale is a historical salmon cannery and community located on a small embayment adjacent to Butedale Falls along the Inside Passage on the northeast side of Princess Royal Island across from Work Island on the southern shore of Fraser Reach, which is part of...
by CoastView | Jan 21, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Natural History, Parks
Kukak Bay is the site of a historical razor clam cannery on the western shore of Shelikof Strait, in Katmai National Park and Preserve, about 132 miles (212 km) southwest of Homer and 77 miles (124 km) northwest of Kodiak, Alaska. The bay extends southwest into the...
by CoastView | Jan 9, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Natural History
Bay of Pillars is on the west coast of Kuiu Island and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) across between Point Sullivan to the north and Point Ellis to the south, about 52 miles (84 km) southeast of Sitka and 52 miles (84 km) west-southwest of Petersburg, Alaska. In 1883, William H....
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 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...
