by CoastView | Sep 7, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Canneries, Chemical Pollution, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Mines, Parks
Greens Creek Mine is the 5th largest silver producer in the world, located on the eastern shore of Hawk Inlet on Admiralty Island, about 77 miles (124 km) north-northeast of Sitka and 18 miles (29 km) southwest of Juneau, Alaska. Admiralty Island is 96 miles (155 km)...
by CoastView | Sep 4, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Akutan Airport is a State of Alaska owned public-use airport on Akun Island that serves the community of Akutan which is 6 miles (10 km) west-southwest across Akutan Bay on Akutan Island, about 766 miles (1,235 km) southwest of Anchorage and 44 miles (71 km) northeast...
by CoastView | Aug 28, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Shelter Cabins
Taku Harbor is a historical community and the site of an abandoned cannery in a small embayment on the eastern shore of Stephens Passage near Taku Inlet, about 86 miles (138 km) northeast of Sitka and 22 miles (35 km) southeast of Juneau, Alaska. Taku Harbor is named...
by CoastView | Aug 20, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands
False Pass is a small community on the east coast of Unimak Island, at the northern end of Isanotski Strait, about 142 miles (229 km) northeast of Dutch Harbor and 38 miles (61 km) southwest of Cold Bay, Alaska. Isanotski Strait was a name historically used for the...
by CoastView | Aug 15, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Best of 2021, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Oregon, Parks, Rivers
Cape Kiwanda is a sandstone headland with an elevation of 240 feet (73 m), protected by a basalt island known as Haystack Rock lying 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the southwest, about 18 miles (29 km) south-southwest of Tillamook and 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of Pacific City,...
by CoastView | Aug 5, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Canneries, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Freshwater, Glaciers, Historical, Rivers
Situk River starts at Situk Lake and flows southwest for about 18 miles (29 km) through the Yakutat Forelands in Tongass National Forest to Johnson Slough on the Gulf of Alaska, about 200 miles (322 km) northwest of Juneau and 9 miles (15 km) southeast of Yakutat,...
