by CoastView | Dec 23, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Saxman is a community on the west coast of Revillagigedo Island on Tongass Narrows across from Pennock Island, about 86 miles (138 km) northwest of Prince Rupert and 3 miles (5 km) southwest of Ketchikan, Alaska. The community is named after Samuel A. Saxman, a...
by CoastView | Dec 18, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Squaw Harbor is a historical cannery and fishing village situated on the north shore of Baralof Bay on the east coast of Unga Island in the Shumagin Islands, about 258 miles (415 km) east-northeast of Unalaska and 7 miles (11 km) south-southwest of Sand Point, Alaska....
by CoastView | Dec 16, 2023 | 2023, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Lawson Harbour was a historical community on Lewis Island between Chismore Passage to the west and Arthur Passage to the east near the mouth of the Skeena River, about 75 miles (121 km) southwest of Terrace and 20 miles (32 km) south of Prince Rupert, British...
by CoastView | Dec 14, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Stebbins is a community in southern Norton Sound situated on a small sand spit along the northern shore of Saint Michael Island at Cape Stephens, which is in the lee of Stuart Island to the northwest and separated by a channel 1 mile (1.6 km) wide named Stephens Pass,...
by CoastView | Dec 11, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Headlands, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Gambell is a community on Saint Lawrence Island at Northwest Cape in the northern Bering Sea on a broad, shallow-water continental shelf that extends from western Alaska to northeastern Russia, about 196 miles (316 km) southwest of Nome, Alaska, and 62 miles (100 km)...
by CoastView | Dec 9, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Karluk Village is situated on the southern shore of Karluk Lagoon, an embayment formed by a barrier spit that partially encloses the mouth of the Karluk River, on the Shelikof Strait coast of Kodiak Island, about 77 miles (124 km) west-southwest of Kodiak and 44 miles...
