by CoastView | Feb 18, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Polly Creek and Little Polly Creek drain a combined watershed of 16,113 acres (6,521 ha), on the southern flank of an unnamed ridge that extends southeast from the summit of Mount Redoubt, and flow generally south for 9 miles (14.5 km) and 8 miles (12.8 km)...
by CoastView | Feb 16, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Mink Bay is an estuary that extends south for 5.4 miles (8.7 km) from Boca de Quadra an embayment on the east side of Revillagigedo Channel, about 54 miles (87 km) north-northwest of Prince Rupert and 40 miles (65 km) southeast of Ketchikan, Alaska. Mink Bay was one...
by CoastView | Feb 14, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Twin Hills is a Yup’ik village situated on the left bank of the Togiak River at the head of Togiak Bay, about 130 miles (210 km) southeast of Bethel and 64 miles (103 km) west of Dillingham, Alaska. In 1880, Ivan Petrof recorded two villages about 7 miles (11 km)...
by CoastView | Feb 14, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Hatcheries, Kachemak, Natural History
Tutka Bay Lagoon is the site of a fish hatchery located about 4 miles (6.5 km) inside and on the southern shore of Tutka Bay in Kachemak Bay State Park, about 10 miles (16 km) east of Seldovia and 15 miles (24 km) south-southeast of Homer, Alaska. Kachemak Bay is...
by CoastView | Feb 13, 2023 | 2023, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History
Staines Point is the southern tip of the Trial Islands which comprise two islets separated by a narrow channel situated in the Strait of Juan de Fuca about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) offshore from the southern end of Vancouver Island at McNeill Bay, about 3.5 miles (5.6 km)...
by CoastView | Feb 11, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
The steamship Yukon, bound from Goodnews Bay on the Kuskokwim River to Seattle in 1913, ran aground in fog and became a total loss on the northwest end of Sanak Island on what is now called Yukon Reef, about 156 miles (252 km) east-northeast of Dutch Harbor and 48...
