by CoastView | Mar 26, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Embayments, Land Use, Mines, Natural History
Tonsina Bay is on the western shore of Nuka Passage at the base of Gore Point on the Kenai Peninsula, across from the southern end of Nuka Island, about 76 miles (122 km) south-southwest of Seward and 31 miles (50 km) south-southeast of Homer, Alaska. The name...
by CoastView | Mar 25, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Rendu Glacier starts in the Fairweather Range at an elevation of roughly 4600 feet (1400 m) in British Columbia and flows generally southeast for about 1 mile (1.6 km) to the United States border between Mount Barnard to the southwest and Boundary Peak 159 to the...
by CoastView | Mar 24, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Shipwrecks
Tugidak Island is the westernmost of the Trinity Island Group, which includes Sitkinak Island, and is part of the Kodiak Archipelago situated off the southern tip of Kodiak Island in the Gulf of Alaska, about 145 miles (233 km) east of Chignik and 124 miles (200 km)...
by CoastView | Mar 22, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Mines, Natural History
Vindicator is a historical beach placer mine in the Alaska Peninsula Mining District situated on the western shore of Popof Island between Sand Point to the north and Red Cove to the south, about 260 miles (419 km) northeast of Dutch Harbor and 67 miles (108 km)...
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 20, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Pedersen Lagoon receives freshwater from proglacial lakes of the Addison and Pedersen glaciers that descend from the Harding Icefield in Kenai Fjords National Park on the western shore of Aialik Bay, about 64 miles (103 km) east-northeast of Homer and 19 miles (31 km)...
