by CoastView | Jun 18, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Parks
Icy Bay is on the Gulf of Alaska coast in Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve, about 154 miles (248 km) southeast of Cordova and 65 miles (105 km) northwest of Yakutat, Alaska. Until the beginning of the 20th century, the bay entrance was blocked by a...
by CoastView | Jun 12, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Communities, Embayments, Historical
Chickaloon Bay is located on the Kenai Peninsula, about 46 miles (74 km) northeast of Kenai and 22 miles (35 km) south and across Turnagain Arm from Anchorage, Alaska. The first Europeans to explore this upper section of Cook Inlet were Russian fur traders employed by...
by CoastView | Jun 9, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical
Teller is an Iñupiat village located at the base of a spit separating Port Clarence Bay from Grantley Harbor, about 59 miles (95 km) northwest of Nome and 6 miles (10 km) southeast of Brevig Mission, Alaska. The present village of Teller is on the southern shore of...
by CoastView | Jun 7, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands
Nuchek is the site of a historical village and Russian trading post on Constantine Harbor at Port Etches on Hinchinbrook Island in Prince William Sound, about 56 miles (90 km) south-southwest of Valdez and 35 miles (56 km) southwest of Cordova, Alaska. The village was...
by CoastView | Jun 6, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Parks
Aniakchak Bay is on the Pacific coast of Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve that surrounds Mount Aniakchak, a caldera in the Aleutian Range, about 200 miles (323 km) southwest of Kodiak and 50 miles (81 km) northeast of Chignik, Alaska. The caldera is 6 miles...
by CoastView | Jun 5, 2024 | 2024, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Oregon, Rivers
North Bend is one of several communities on Coos Bay, an estuary on the southern Oregon coast, about 22 miles (35 km) south of Reedsport and 3 miles (4.8 km) north of the city of Coos Bay, Oregon. Coos Bay is the largest estuary that lies entirely within Oregon with...
