by CoastView | May 13, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Hatcheries, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Waterfalls
The Hidden Falls Fish Hatchery is located in Tongass National Forest on the northeast coast of Baranof Island, at the head of Kasnyku Bay off Chatham Strait, about 22 miles (35 km) south-southeast of Angoon and 21 miles (34 km) northeast of Sitka, Alaska. Hidden Falls...
by CoastView | Feb 9, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Hatcheries, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Burnett Inlet is a narrow estuarine fjord extending about 9 miles (15 km) north from Clarence Strait into the southwest coast of Etolin Island, about 63 miles (101 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 25 miles (40 km) south-southwest of Wrangell, Alaska. The inlet was named...
by CoastView | Jan 8, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Hatcheries, Historical, Land Use, Rivers
Little Port Walter is an embayment and the name of a research facility on the southern shore at the mouth of Port Walter, on the southeastern coast of Baranof Island and the western shore of Chatham Strait, about 53 miles (85 km) south-southeast of Sitka and 9 miles...
by CoastView | Dec 8, 2021 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, December 2024, Developments, Embayments, Hatcheries, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Rivers
Loring is a small community at the site of a historical salmon cannery on the west coast of Revillagigedo Island, at the head of Naha Bay and near the mouth of the Naha River, about 66 miles (106 km) south-southeast of Wrangell and 17 miles (27 km) north of Ketchikan,...