by CoastView | Dec 1, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Communities, December 2024, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks
Whalers Cove is a bight on the northeastern shore of Killisnoo Island located in Chatham Strait along the central west coast of Admiralty Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 42 miles (68 km) northeast of Sitka and 2.5 miles (4 km) south of...
by CoastView | Nov 29, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Freshwater, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, November 2024, Parks, Rivers
Thoms Place is an embayment, and a widely distributed remote community, along Zimovia Strait on the southwest coast of Wrangell Island, about 62 miles (100 km) north-northwest of Ketchikan and 22 miles (35 km) south-southeast of Wrangell, Alaska. Zimovia Strait is a...
by CoastView | Nov 24, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, November 2024
Akhiok is the southernmost Alutiiq Sugpiat village on Kodiak Island, situated on Akhiok Bay which is on the western shore of Alitak Bay, about 167 miles (269 km) east-northeast of Chignik and 87 miles (140 km) southwest of Kodiak, Alaska. This location was settled in...
by CoastView | Nov 22, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, November 2024
Tigalda Island is 12 miles (19 km) long with an area of about 22,400 acres (9,065 ha) and is one of the Krenitzin Islands in the Eastern Aleutians, about 84 miles (135 km) southwest of False Pass and 28 miles (45 km) east of Akutan, Alaska. The island was called...
by CoastView | Nov 20, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, November 2024
Symonds Bay is on the north coast of Biorka Island, between Hanus Point to the east and Entrance Islet to the west, and extends about 0.9 miles (1.4 km) south to a gravel isthmus with a beach landing, about 184 miles (296 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 16 miles (26...
by CoastView | Nov 19, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, November 2024
Dodge Cove is a small community located on Digby Island, across from Kaien Island on the west side of Prince Rupert Harbour, about 88 miles (142 km) southeast of Ketchikan and 3 miles (5 km) southwest of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. Dodge Cove was named in 1907 by...
