by CoastView | Jan 29, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Washington Bay trends east for 2 miles (3.2 km) on the northwest coast of Kuiu Island and is the site of a historical herring reduction facility near the head of the bay that is flanked by steep mountains rising abruptly to 2,800 feet (853 m) on the north and 2,200...
by CoastView | Jan 22, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Canneries, Communities, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Ikatan Peninsula is connected to the northeastern tip of Unimak Island by a sand spit or tombolo separating Ikatan Bay to the north from Otter Cove to the south and is the site of the historical community of Ikatan, about 143 miles (230 km) northeast of Unalaska and 8...
by CoastView | Jan 12, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Hunter Bay is the estuary for several watersheds that support important sockeyes salmon populations and the site of a historical salmon cannery on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island near the abandoned village of Klinkwan, about 89 miles (143 km) northwest of...
by CoastView | Jan 9, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Islands, Land Use, Mines
Calder is a mining camp for a historic marble quarry and present-day limestone mine situated at the mouth of Marble Creek on Shakan Strait near the entrance to El Capitan Passage on Prince of Wales Island, about 92 miles (148 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 12 miles...
by CoastView | Dec 18, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Squaw Harbor is a historical cannery and fishing village situated on the north shore of Baralof Bay on the east coast of Unga Island in the Shumagin Islands, about 258 miles (415 km) east-northeast of Unalaska and 7 miles (11 km) south-southwest of Sand Point, Alaska....
by CoastView | Dec 15, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Naknek is a community situated on a bluff overlooking the northern bank of the mouth of the Naknek River, at Kvichak Bay which forms the northeastern arm of Bristol Bay, about 56 miles (90 km) southeast of Dillingham and 13 miles (21 km) west-northwest of King Salmon,...