by CoastView | May 3, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Rivers
Dillingham is a community on the south side of Snag Point at the confluence of the Wood and Nushagak Rivers, at the head of Nushagak Bay on the north coast of Bristol Bay, about 248 miles (400 km) west-southwest of Homer and 166 miles (270 km) southeast of Bethel,...
by CoastView | Apr 29, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Bartlett Cove is an embayment, and estuary of the Bartlett River, that extends northeast for 2 miles (3.2 km) from the eastern shore of Glacier Bay and is the location of a small resort community and administrative headquarters for Glacier Bay National Park and...
by CoastView | Apr 28, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Parks Cannery is located in Uyak Bay, 24 miles (39 km) south of Shelikof Strait on the west coast of Kodiak Island, about 8 miles (13 km) south-southeast of Larsen Bay and 61 miles (100 km) southwest of Kodiak, Alaska. The bay was named after the Aleut village of...
by CoastView | Apr 3, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Kadiak Fisheries operated a remote salmon cannery at Observation Point from 1926 until 1964 when it was destroyed by a tsunami, on the north shore of Shearwater Bay on Kodiak Island, about 36 miles (58 km) south-southwest of Kodiak and 18 miles (29 km) northeast of...
by CoastView | Mar 15, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Uganik Fisheries is a historical salmon cannery on the north shore of Northeast Arm in Uganik Bay about 1.3 miles (2 km) southeast of Starr Point on the northwestern coast of Kodiak Island, about 147 miles (237 km) south-southwest of Homer and 35 miles (56 km) west of...
by CoastView | Feb 20, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Parks
Halibut Cove Lagoon is a semi-enclosed embayment about 0.7 miles (1 km) wide at the head of Halibut Cove on the southeast shore of Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, about 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Seldovia and 13 miles (21 km) southeast of Homer, Alaska. The...
