Homer Spit

59.60179 - 151.414261Koordinaten: 59 ° 36 ' 6.4 "N, 151 ° 24' 51.3 " W

Homer Spit is a seven- kilometer long peninsula in Alaska, ranging in Homer on the Kenai Peninsula in the Kachemak Bay. On it are located next to the harbor in Homer and the dock of the Alaska Marine Highway plenty of tourist facilities such as hotels, restaurants, shops for fishing tackle and offices of organizers of boat trips.

On the Origin of the headland there are two different theories. Either it was deposited by the tides and currents of the Cook Inlets and the Kachemak Bay or from a no longer existing glaciers.

1899 built the Cook Inlet Coal Fields Company tracks from the coal mines along the bay to the loading docks on the Homer Spit. The resulting business led to the emergence of the city of Homer.

Through the Good Friday earthquake of 1964, the area of the peninsula was reduced to about two square kilometers. Vegetation and soil were largely destroyed, so that Homer Spit today consists almost entirely of gravel and sand.

Homer Spit reaches a height of only about six meters above sea level, which makes it vulnerable to storm surges. The damage caused by an eruption of nearby Mount St. Augustine tsunami would reach the headland without advance warning.