by CoastView | Dec 11, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Islands, Kachemak, Natural History
Hesketh Island is about 1.2 miles (1.9 km) long, located on the southern shore of Kachemak Bay, 9.5 miles (15 km) south of Homer and 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Seldovia, Alaska. In 1880, William Healey Dall named the island for Sir Thomas Hesketh who visited Cook...
by CoastView | Dec 9, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Ugamak Island is about 5.2 miles (8.4 km) long, located 75 miles (121 km) northeast of Unalaska and 36 miles (58 km) east of Akutan, Alaska. The island is the easternmost of the Krenitzin Island group, in the Fox Islands of the Eastern Aleutians. The Aleut name was...
by CoastView | Dec 6, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Best of 2022, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Port Camden is an embayment on the northeast coast of Kuiu Island, about 36 miles (58 km) south-southwest of Petersburg, and 61 miles (98 km) northwest of Wrangell, Alaska. Kuiu Island lies between Kupreanof Island to the east and Baranof Island to the west. The...
by CoastView | Dec 4, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Islands, Kachemak, Natural History
The Herring Islands are located at the entrance to Tutka Bay, on the southern shore of Kachemak Bay, 11 miles (18 km) south of Homer and 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Seldovia, Alaska. The islands were named by William Healey Dall of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey...
by CoastView | Dec 1, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Islands, Shipwrecks
China Cove is a small embayment, about 1.7 miles (2.7 km) wide, on the southeast coast of Coronation Island, located between Chatham and Sumner Straits, 93 miles (150 km) south-southeast of Sitka and 106 miles (171 km) northwest of Ketchikan, Alaska. Coronation Island...
by CoastView | Nov 27, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Islands, Kachemak
Cohen Island is about 0.3 miles (0.5 km) across, located at the north entrance to Eldred Passage, on the eastern shore of Kachemak Bay, 8 miles (13 km) south of Homer, Alaska. The island was named by William Healey Dall, of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, for a...
