by CoastView | Jan 1, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Headlands, Land Use, Natural History
Point Possession is a headland on the northern shore of the Kenai Peninsula near the confluence of Cook Inlet and Turnagain Arm, about 44 miles (71 km) northeast of Kenai and 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Anchorage, Alaska. The point was named in 1778 by Captain James...
by CoastView | Dec 30, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Elephant Point is a headland and the site of a fish camp near a historical reindeer station in Eschscholtz Bay at the head of Kotzebue Sound, about 56 miles (90 km) southeast of Kotzebue and 20 miles (32 km) north-northwest of Buckland, Alaska. The bay was discovered...
by CoastView | Dec 29, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Rivers
Knik village is a historic Dena’ina community situated between the northwest shore of Knik Arm in Cook Inlet to the east and Knik Lake to the west, about 18 miles (29 km) north-northeast of Anchorage and 13 miles (21 km) southwest of Wasilla, Alaska. The name is...
by CoastView | Dec 27, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Cape Pole is a historical logging community at Cape Pole on the eastern shore of Fishermans Harbor on Kosciusko Island, about 92 miles (148 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 6.7 miles (11 km) west of Edna Bay, Alaska. Fishermans Harbor is an estuary about 0.9 miles (1.5...
by CoastView | Dec 26, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Nash Harbor is a historic settlement situated at the outlet of a lagoon on the south shore of an embayment also named Nash Harbor bounded by Cape Algonquin to the west and Chingeeruk Point to the east, on the north coast of Nunivak Island, about 96 miles (155 km)...
by CoastView | Dec 24, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Land Use, Natural History
Kaktovik is a community on Barter Island and historically was a major trading center for the Iñupiat from Alaska and Inuit from Canada, situated between the Arctic Coastal Plain and the Beaufort Sea with Arey Lagoon to the west and Kaktovik Lagoon to the east, about...
