by CoastView | Apr 27, 2024 | 2024, April 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History
Friendly Cove is an embayment on Nootka Island situated at the northern entrance to Nootka Sound, and is the site of a historic lighthouse and the Yuquot National Historic Site of Canada, about 72 miles (116 km) south-southeast of Port McNeill and 45 miles (72 km)...
by CoastView | Apr 26, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, April 2024, Beaches, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Marys Slough is a side channel about 5 miles (8 km) long at the mouth of the Unalakleet River formed by a barrier spit on Norton Sound that creates an extensive tidal wetland, about 46 miles (74 km) northeast of Saint Michael and 1.1 miles (1.8 km) south-southeast of...
by CoastView | Apr 25, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, April 2024, Beaches, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Cape Tanak is a headland on the north coast of Umnak Island in the Eastern Aleutian Islands between Cape Idak to the east and Ashishik Point to the west, about 64 miles (103 km) southwest of Dutch Harbor and 56 miles (90 km) northeast of Nikolski, Alaska. The name of...
by CoastView | Apr 24, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, April 2024, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Glaciers, Land Use, Natural History
Mendenhall Glacier starts from an ice divide in the Juneau Icefield at an elevation of 4,300 feet (1,311 m) and flows generally southwest for 15 miles (24 km) to a proglacial lake between McGinnis Mountain to the west and Bullard Mountain to the east, about 11 miles...
by CoastView | Apr 23, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, April 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Sinuk River starts from a series of deglaciated cirques at an elevation of 1,890 feet (576 m) on the west flank of Tigaraha Mountain on the Seward Peninsula, and flows generally southwest for 44 miles (71 km), draining a watershed of 190,572 acres (77,122 ha), to the...