by CoastView | Jun 4, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Chemical Pollution, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Mines, Natural History
Beatson Copper Mine and the abandoned mining community of Latouche are situated at the base of Mount Beatson and adjacent to Powder Point near the northwest tip of Latouche Island in Prince William Sound, about 82 miles (132 km) southwest of Cordova and 57 miles (92...
by CoastView | Jan 5, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Developments, Land Use, Mines
Red Dog is a zinc and lead mine about 46 miles (74 km) inland from the Chukchi Sea coast and connected by road to an export terminal, about 62 miles (100 km) northwest of Kotzebue and 16 miles (26 km) southeast of Kivalina, Alaska. This metal sulfide mine is the...
by CoastView | Jul 20, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Freshwater, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
The Salinas River starts in the central California Coast Ranges and drains a watershed of 2.7 million acres (1 million ha), flowing 175 miles (282 km) generally northwest to Monterey Bay, about 12 miles (19 km) north-northeast of Monterey and 3 miles (5 km)...
by CoastView | May 26, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Point-Lonely.mp3 Originally a Cold War Distant Early Warning facility, Lonely was decommissioned in 2018 and is now an unattended airstrip on the Beaufort Sea coast at Pitt Point, about 83...
by CoastView | May 17, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Canneries, Chemical Pollution, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Port-OBrien.mp3 Port O’Brien is a remote salmon cannery on the eastern shore of Northeast Arm, Uganik Bay, located on the northwest coast of Kodiak Island, about 147 miles (236 km)...
by CoastView | May 10, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Port-Bailey.mp3 Port Bailey is a historic cannery located in Dry Spruce Bay on the Kupreanof Peninsula of Kodiak Island, approximately 130 miles (209 km) south-southwest of Homer and 26 miles...
