by CoastView | Jul 14, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Chemical Pollution, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Mines, Shipwrecks
Aoyagi Maru is a Japanese flagged refrigerant ship that grounded on the south shore of Lost Harbor on Akun Island, about 135 miles (218 km) southwest of Cold Bay and 9 miles (14.5 km) northeast of Akutan, Alaska. Lost Harbor is a protected embayment about 1.5 miles...
by CoastView | Apr 17, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Mines, Natural History
Delarof Harbor is an embayment and the site of the historical village of Unga on the southeast coast of Unga Island, the largest of the Shumagin Islands, about 73 miles (118 km) southwest of Perryville and 9.5 miles (15 km) south of Sand Point, Alaska. The harbor was...
by CoastView | Apr 10, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Glaciers, Land Use, Mines, Natural History, Parks
Nuka River starts from Bradley Pass in the Kenai Mountains at an elevation of roughly 1400 feet (427 m) and flows generally south for 10 miles (16 km), draining a watershed of 34,503 acres (13,963 ha), to Beauty Bay between Storm Mountain to the north and Mount Diablo...
by CoastView | Mar 26, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Embayments, Land Use, Mines, Natural History
Tonsina Bay is on the western shore of Nuka Passage at the base of Gore Point on the Kenai Peninsula, across from the southern end of Nuka Island, about 76 miles (122 km) south-southwest of Seward and 31 miles (50 km) south-southeast of Homer, Alaska. The name...
by CoastView | Mar 23, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Headlands, Land Use, Mines, Natural History, Parks, Washington
Portage Head is a prominent headland south of Cape Flattery on the Olympic Peninsula that separates Makah Bay Beach from Shi Shi Beach, about 58 miles (94 km) west-northwest of Port Angeles and 6 miles (10 km) southwest of Neah Bay, Washington. The headland is on the...
by CoastView | Mar 22, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Mines, Natural History
Vindicator is a historical beach placer mine in the Alaska Peninsula Mining District situated on the western shore of Popof Island between Sand Point to the north and Red Cove to the south, about 260 miles (419 km) northeast of Dutch Harbor and 67 miles (108 km)...