by CoastView | Oct 17, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Best of 2022, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
Portlock is a historical salmon cannery in Port Chatham, an embayment on the southern coast of the Kenai Peninsula, about 102 miles (164 km) north-northeast of Kodiak and 10 miles (16 km) south-southeast of Port Graham, Alaska. Portlock was named for Nathaniel...
by CoastView | Oct 10, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Chugachik Island is situated about 800 feet (244 m) off the eastern shore and near the head of Kachemak Bay, between Bear Cove to the south and Martin River to the north, on the Kenai Peninsula in Kachemak Bay State Park, about 18 miles (29 km) northeast of Homer and...
by CoastView | Oct 3, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Kachemak, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
Tutka River starts from an elevation of about 2800 feet (853 m) on the western flank of the Kenai Mountains and flows generally west to the head of Tutka Bay, a fjord on the southern coast of Kachemak Bay, about 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Homer and 15 miles (24 km)...
by CoastView | Sep 27, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Sadie River starts on the western flank of the Kenai Mountains at an elevation of about 3,200 feet (975 m) and flows generally west-northwest for 6 miles (10 km) through Kachemak Bay State Park to the head of Sadie Cove, about 14.5 miles (23 km) south-southeast of...
by CoastView | Sep 20, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Kachemak
Mariner Lagoon is situated at the base of the Homer Spit, about 1 mile (1.6 km) southeast of the community of Homer, Alaska. The lagoon was formed when Coal Bay was bisected by a road causeway in the 1940s to provide more reliable access to a deepwater harbor at the...
by CoastView | Sep 13, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use
Millers Landing is on the north shore of Kachemak Bay, on the Kenai Peninsula, about 4 miles (6.5 km) northwest of Homer, Alaska. The local name was first reported and published by the U.S. Geological Survey in the 1950s. Millers Landing is named after Charles Miller...
