by CoastView | Jan 12, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Hunter Bay is the estuary for several watersheds that support important sockeyes salmon populations and the site of a historical salmon cannery on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island near the abandoned village of Klinkwan, about 89 miles (143 km) northwest of...
by CoastView | Jan 10, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Naukati Bay is a community at the site of a former logging camp and log transfer facility situated on a peninsula on the western coast of Prince of Wales Island between Little Naukati Bay to the northwest, Kaikli Cove to the northeast, Naukati Bay to the east, and...
by CoastView | Jan 9, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Islands, Land Use, Mines
Calder is a mining camp for a historic marble quarry and present-day limestone mine situated at the mouth of Marble Creek on Shakan Strait near the entrance to El Capitan Passage on Prince of Wales Island, about 92 miles (148 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 12 miles...
by CoastView | Dec 27, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Cape Pole is a historical logging community at Cape Pole on the eastern shore of Fishermans Harbor on Kosciusko Island, about 92 miles (148 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 6.7 miles (11 km) west of Edna Bay, Alaska. Fishermans Harbor is an estuary about 0.9 miles (1.5...
by CoastView | Dec 26, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Nash Harbor is a historic settlement situated at the outlet of a lagoon on the south shore of an embayment also named Nash Harbor bounded by Cape Algonquin to the west and Chingeeruk Point to the east, on the north coast of Nunivak Island, about 96 miles (155 km)...
by CoastView | Dec 25, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks
Christmas Island is the largest of several small reefs and islets on the western coastline and near the entrance of Security Bay on Kuiu Island, about 45 miles (72 km) south of Angoon and 18 miles (29 km) southwest of Kake, Alaska. Kuiu Island is in the Alexander...
