by CoastView | Jan 7, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Kachemak, Natural History
Kasitsna Bay Laboratory is a marine research facility located on a shallow embayment about 1.2 miles (1.9 km) wide, about 12 miles (19 km) south of Homer and 6.3 miles (10 km) northeast of Seldovia, Alaska. The name is from the Dena’ina language and was originally...
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 | Dec 27, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use
King Cove is a small community on the Alaska Peninsula located partially on a spit separating King Cove Bay and King Cove Lagoon, about 18 air miles (29 km) southeast of the village of Cold Bay, Alaska. King Cove Bay is 15 miles (24 km) across and lies between Cold...
by CoastView | Dec 23, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines
The Ross Adams is a historical uranium-thorium mine in the Tongass National Forest, located on the southeastern slopes of Bokan Mountain near the southern end of Prince of Wales Island, approximately 33 miles (53 km) southeast of Hydaburg and 38 air miles (61 km)...
by CoastView | Dec 22, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use
Funter Bay is on the west coast of the Mansfield Peninsula on Admiralty Island, about 32 miles (52 km) southeast of Gustavus and 14 miles (23 km) southwest of Juneau, Alaska. The bay was named in 1883 by William Healey Dall, of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, for...
by CoastView | Dec 21, 2022 | 2022, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Rivers
Ocean Roar is a small group of buildings at the mouth of Walker Creek on Tomales Bay, and formerly a community on the North Pacific Coast Railroad, about 2.3 miles (3.7 km) southwest of Tomales and 16 miles (26 km) west of Petaluma, California. Walker Creek originates...
