by CoastView | Mar 21, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Diamond NN is a historic cannery in South Naknek at the mouth of the Naknek River that flows into Kvichak Bay, an arm of Bristol Bay, about 56 miles (90 km) southeast of Dillingham and 13 miles (21 km) west of King Salmon, Alaska. The salmon cannery was built by the...
by CoastView | Mar 16, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Kasilof River starts at the outlet of Tustumena Lake on the Kenai Peninsula and flows generally northwest for 17 miles (27 km) through the Kenai Lowland to Cook Inlet, draining a watershed of 93,275 acres (37,747 ha), about 51 miles (82 km) north-northeast of Homer...
by CoastView | Feb 26, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Bering River starts from a series of ice-marginal lakes and streams draining from the Martin River, Steller, and Bering glaciers, and flows generally south-southwest for 18 miles ( km) to Controller Bay on the Gulf of Alaska, about 63 miles (102 km) west of Cape...
by CoastView | Feb 12, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Ivanof Bay is a community on the Alaska Peninsula at the head of Ivanof Bay, an estuary of the Ivanof River that starts at an elevation of roughly 1000 feet (305 m) on the south flank of the Alaska Peninsula and flows generally southwest for 9 miles (15 km) draining a...
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...
