by CoastView | Jul 21, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Mines, Natural History
Copper Harbor is an embayment on Prince of Wales Island on the eastern shore of Hetta Inlet, and the site of the historical Coppermount mine, about 38 miles (61 km) west-southwest of Ketchikan and 8.6 miles (14 km) east-northeast of Hydaburg, Alaska. The harbor and...
by CoastView | Jul 19, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Ford Arm is an embayment about 0.3 miles (483 m) across and 4 miles (6.5 km) long, on the west coast of Chichagof Island, about 44 miles (71 km) north-northwest of Sitka and 28 miles (44 km) south-southeast of Pelican, Alaska. Ford Arm was named in 1897 by Lieutenant...
by CoastView | Jul 10, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
MacDonald Spit is a sediment depositional feature, about 1 mile (1.6 km) long, caused by longshore drift from west to east which forms the northwestern shore of Kasitsna Bay on the southern coast of Kachemak Bay, about 11 miles (18 km) south of Homer and 5 miles (8...
by CoastView | Jul 7, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
The Lindenberger Packing Company is a historical salmon cannery on Craig Island in the present-day community of Craig at the south end of Klawock Inlet adjacent to Fish Egg Island and now connected to Prince of Wales Island by a causeway, about 58 miles (93 km)...
by CoastView | Jul 1, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Canneries, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
The Cape Fox Packing Company operated a cannery from 1883 to 1886 on the north shore of Boca de Quadra, a fjord on the Portland Peninsula in present-day Misty Fjords National Monument Wilderness, about 59 miles (95 km) north-northwest of Prince Rupert and 36 miles (58...
by CoastView | Jun 30, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Letnikof Cove is a small embayment about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) across on the Chilkat Peninsula, situated on the eastern shore of Chilkat Inlet at the mouth of the Chilkat River, about 70 miles (113 km) north-northwest of Juneau and 5 miles (8 km) south-southeast of...
