by CoastView | Mar 25, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, March 2023, Mines, Natural History
Claim Point forms the western shore of Chrome Bay at the northern entrance to Port Chatham on the Kenai Peninsula, the site of a historical chromite mine, about 100 miles (162 km) north-northwest of Kodiak and 33 miles (53 km) south-southwest of Homer, Alaska. Port...
by CoastView | Mar 20, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, March 2023
Seldovia is a community situated on the eastern shore of Seldovia Bay and on the southern shore of Kachemak Bay in Cook Inlet, about 136 miles (219 km) southwest of Anchorage and 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Homer, Alaska. The name is derived from the Russian word...
by CoastView | Mar 13, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Developments, Embayments, Kachemak, Land Use, March 2023
Sadie Cove is a deglaciated fjord that extends generally northwest for 6.4 miles (10 km) from the mouth of the Sadie River to Eldred Passage on the southeastern shore of Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, about 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Homer and 10 miles (16...
by CoastView | Mar 7, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, March 2023
Coal Point forms the tip of the Homer Spit in Kachemak Bay on the southern Kenai Peninsula, about 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Seldovia and 5.7 miles (9 km) southeast of Homer, Alaska. The name is a translation by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey of the Russian...
by CoastView | Feb 28, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, February 2023, Kachemak, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
Grewingk Creek drains a glaciated watershed of 29,138 acres (11,792 ha) and flows generally northwest for 3.5 miles (5.6 km) from the terminus lake of the retreating Grewingk Glacier to the southeastern shore of Kachemak Bay, about 24 miles (39 km) northeast of...
by CoastView | Feb 21, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, February 2023, Headlands, Historical, Kachemak, Shipwrecks
Dangerous Cape is a headland with an elevation of 66 feet (20 m) on the southern Kenai Peninsula, at the northern entrance of Port Graham near the mouth of Kachemak Bay, about 22 miles (35 km) southwest of Homer and 4 miles (6.5 km) northwest of the community of Port...
