by CoastView | Oct 3, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Canneries, Communities, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Kake is a Tlingit village on the northeastern shore of Keku Strait, on the northwest shore of Kupreanof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 95 miles (153 km) south-southeast of Juneau and 39 miles (63 km) west-northwest of Peterburg, Alaska....
by CoastView | Oct 2, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Natural History
Cooper Island is an Arctic barrier island and one of the Plover Islands on Elson Lagoon on the Beaufort Sea coast, about 129 miles (208 km) northwest of Nuiqsut and 24 miles (39 km) east of Utqiaġvik, Alaska. The Iñupiat name for the island is Lglurak, generally...
by CoastView | Sep 29, 2024 | 2024, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Parks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ThreeArchRocks.mp3 Three Arch Rocks are massive arched basalt sea stacks located south of Cape Meares and 0.5 miles (0.9 km) offshore from Maxwell Point at the community of Oceanside, about 8...
by CoastView | Sep 28, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks
Angoon is a historic Tlingit village located on an isthmus at the mouth of Kootznahoo Inlet on the eastern shore of Chatham Strait and the west coast of Admiralty Island, about 77 miles (124 km) northwest of Petersburg and 60 miles (97 km) southwest of Juneau, Alaska....
by CoastView | Sep 26, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks
Hogg Island is the site of a historical fox farm and herring reduction plant situated in Bluefox Bay on Shelikof Strait and the northwest coast of Afognak Island, about 91 miles (147 km) southwest of Homer and 47 miles (76 km) north-northwest of Kodiak, Alaska....
by CoastView | Sep 21, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Three Saints Harbor is the location of a historical Russian settlement established in 1784 on Three Saints Bay on the east coast of Kodiak Island, about 63 miles (101 km) southwest of Kodiak and 29 miles (47 km) northeast of Akhiok, Alaska. The settlement was at the...
