by CoastView | Aug 26, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Shipwrecks
FV Lisa Jo is a shipwreck at the entrance to Akun Bay on the western coast of Akun Island between Round Head to the south and Billings Head to the north, about 94 miles (151 km) southwest of False Pass and 13 miles (21 km) northeast of the village of Akutan, Alaska....
by CoastView | Aug 24, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks
Beauclerc Island is in Sumner Strait, at the entrance to Port Beauclerc on Kuiu Island, in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 80 miles (129 km) southeast of Sitka and 11 miles (18 km) southwest of Point Baker, Alaska. The island’s name is taken...
by CoastView | Aug 20, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands
False Pass is a small community on the east coast of Unimak Island, at the northern end of Isanotski Strait, about 142 miles (229 km) northeast of Dutch Harbor and 38 miles (61 km) southwest of Cold Bay, Alaska. Isanotski Strait was a name historically used for the...
by CoastView | Aug 17, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands
Mueller Cove provides a protected landing for the village of Nikolski at the head of Nikolski Bay, on the northern shore and at the southwestern end of Umnak Island in the eastern Aleutian Islands, about 338 miles (544 km) east-northeast of Adak and 116 miles (187 km)...
by CoastView | Aug 15, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Best of 2021, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Oregon, Parks, Rivers
Cape Kiwanda is a sandstone headland with an elevation of 240 feet (73 m), protected by a basalt island known as Haystack Rock lying 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the southwest, about 18 miles (29 km) south-southwest of Tillamook and 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of Pacific City,...
by CoastView | Aug 14, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Shipwrecks
Black Reef is on the west shore of Cook Inlet about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) offshore between North Head and Knoll Head on a peninsula between Iliamna Bay and Iniskin Bay, and the site of the SS Farallon shipwreck, about 130 miles (209 km) northeast of King Salmon and 71...
