by CoastView | Jan 10, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Best of 2021, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, January 2025, Land Use
Port Moller is a small community clustered around a historic salmon cannery located on Moller Bay, an embayment on the Bering Sea coast of the Alaska Peninsula near the western margin of Bristol Bay, about 93 miles (150 km) northeast of King Cove and 87 miles (140 km)...
by CoastView | Jan 9, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, January 2025, Land Use
Point Baker is a cape on the south shore of Sumner Strait at the north end of Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska, where a small community with the same name lines the shore of a narrow water passage, about 101 miles (163 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 49 miles...
by CoastView | Jan 6, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Parks, Shelter Cabins
Kanatak is an uninhabited Alutiiq community of the Native Tribe of Kanatak located at the head of Portage Bay, on the Pacific coast of the Alaska Peninsula, about 136 miles (219 km) west-southwest of Kodiak and 65 miles (105 km) southeast of Egegik, Alaska. Portage...
by CoastView | Jan 4, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Rivers
Noatak River starts from several small cirque glaciers on the northeast flank of Mount lgikpak in the Schwatka Mountains and flows generally west for 425 miles (684 km) to Hotham Inlet in Kotzebue Sound, about 75 miles (121 km) southeast of Kivalina and 6 miles (10...
by CoastView | Jan 3, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, British Columbia, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Mines, Rivers
Hyder is a small community at the mouth of the Salmon River, on the western shore and near the head of Portland Canal, about 75 miles (121 km) northeast of Ketchikan and 2.5 miles (4 km) south-southwest of Stewart, British Columbia. Portland Canal is a fjord...
by CoastView | Jan 1, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Islands, January 2025, Land Use, Parks
Hutchins Bay is on the eastern shore of Glacier Bay, partially surrounding the Beardslee Islands, in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 155 miles (249 km) southeast of Yakutat and 8 miles (13 km) north of Gustavus, Alaska. The bay was named by the U.S....