by CoastView | Sep 2, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Shipwrecks
Chil Bo San No. 6 is a shipwreck on Spray Cape, a conspicuous headland on the west coast of Unalaska Island between Skan Bay to the north and Pumicestone Bay to the south, about 85 miles (137 km) northeast of Nikolski and 32 miles (52 km) southwest of Dutch Harbor,...
by CoastView | Aug 30, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Mines
Hollis is a small community on Twelvemile Arm of Kasaan Bay, north of Cat Island, near the center of Prince of Wales Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 41 miles (66 km) west-northwest of Ketchikan and 20 miles (32 km) east of Craig, Alaska....
by CoastView | Aug 26, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Shipwrecks
FV Lisa Jo is a shipwreck at the entrance to Akun Bay on the western coast of Akun Island between Round Head to the south and Billings Head to the north, about 94 miles (151 km) southwest of False Pass and 13 miles (21 km) northeast of the village of Akutan, Alaska....
by CoastView | Aug 23, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Communities, Developments, Freshwater, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
Jago River starts at an unnamed glacier on the continental divide of the Romanzof Mountains in the Brooks Range and flows north for about 90 miles (145 km) through the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Jago Lagoon, about 88 miles (142 km) east-northeast of...
by CoastView | Aug 21, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Best of 2021, Chemical Pollution, Communities, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use
Tin City is a historical mining community on Cape Prince of Wales, located at the mouth of Cape Creek and adjacent to Cape Mountain on the Seward Peninsula, about 103 miles (166 km) northwest of Nome and 6 miles (10 km) southeast of Wales, Alaska. Cape Prince of Wales...
by CoastView | Aug 2, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Chemical Pollution, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Shipwrecks
Ocean Bay is on the southeast shore of Sitkalidak Island in the Kodiak Archipelago, about 56 miles (90 km) southwest of Kodiak and 9 miles (15 km) southeast of the village of Old Harbor, Alaska. The Kodiak Archipelago is in the western Gulf of Alaska and has about 32...
