by CoastView | Feb 14, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Hatcheries, Kachemak, Natural History
Tutka Bay Lagoon is the site of a fish hatchery located about 4 miles (6.5 km) inside and on the southern shore of Tutka Bay in Kachemak Bay State Park, about 10 miles (16 km) east of Seldovia and 15 miles (24 km) south-southeast of Homer, Alaska. Kachemak Bay is...
by CoastView | Oct 22, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Hatcheries, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Whitman Creek starts from Blue Lake at an elevation of about 2,660 feet (811 m) on the south flank of Roy Jones Mountain on the southeast coast of Revillagigedo Island and flows generally southeast for 2.4 miles (4 km) to Whitman Lake, and then another 0.7 miles (1.1...
by CoastView | Jul 26, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Hatcheries, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Cannery Creek is the site of a salmon hatchery on the eastern shore of Unakwik Inlet in Prince William Sound and the Chugach National Forest, about 42 miles (68 km) northeast of Whittier and 41 miles (66 km) west-southwest of Valdez, Alaska. The local name is after a...
by CoastView | Jul 22, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Hatcheries, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Natural History, Rivers
Limestone Inlet is 0.25 miles (0.4 km) wide and extends about 2 miles (3.2 km) into the Alaska mainland from the eastern shore of Stephens Passage, between Arthur Peak to the north and Webster Peak to the south, about 84 miles (135 km) northeast of Sitka and 25 miles...
by CoastView | May 22, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Hatcheries, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use
Port Graham is a deglaciated fjord at the southern entrance to Kachemak Bay with an Alutiiq Sugpiat community with the same name, on the southwestern end of the Kenai Peninsula, about 23 miles (37 km) south-southwest of Homer and 3.4 miles (5.5 km) east of Nanwalek,...
by CoastView | May 19, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Best of 2022, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Hatcheries, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Waterfalls
Kirschner Lake is on the western coast of lower Cook Inlet at an elevation of about 80 feet (24 m) and isolated by a waterfall that cascades 40 feet (12 m) to the northern shore of Kamishak Bay, about 110 miles (177 km) northeast of King Salmon and 86 miles (138 km)...
