by CoastView | Feb 20, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Parks
Halibut Cove Lagoon is a semi-enclosed embayment about 0.7 miles (1 km) wide at the head of Halibut Cove on the southeast shore of Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, about 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Seldovia and 13 miles (21 km) southeast of Homer, Alaska. The...
by CoastView | Feb 15, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Kachemak, Natural History
Contact Point is a headland forming the southern shore of Bruin Bay on the western side of Cook Inlet, about 123 miles (198 km) northwest of Kodiak and 93 miles (150 km) west-southwest of Homer, Alaska. It was named in 1926 by George C. Martin of the U.S. Geological...
by CoastView | Feb 3, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Best of 2022, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
Fortification Bluff is a sea cliff over 3 miles (4.8 km) long that rises almost vertically to 1,200 feet (366 m), on the south face of Step Mountain in Kamishak Bay, about 125 miles (201 km) northwest of Kodiak and 82 miles (132 km) west-southwest of Homer, Alaska....
by CoastView | Jan 24, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Kachemak, Land Use, Parks
Barren Islands are the northernmost of the Kodiak Archipelago, located near Lower Cook Inlet between Stevenson Entrance to the south and Kennedy Entrance to the north, about 80 miles (129 km) north of Kodiak and 56 miles (90 km) southwest of Homer, Alaska. Lower Cook...
