BEST OF 2018
Portland Canal, International Boundary
Portland Canal is a narrow water passage that forms part of the boundary between Alaska and British Columbia, Canada.
Point of the Arches, Olympic National Park
Point of the Arches and the adjacent Shi Shi Beach represent a unique section of shoreline located at the edge of the Olympic National Park.
New Eddystone Rock, Behm Canal
The New Eddystone Rock is a pillar of basalt, 237 feet (72 m) high, in Behm Canal, Alaska.
Rudyerd Bay, Misty Fjords National Monument
Rudyerd Bay is a fjord on the mainland of Southeast Alaska, about 37 air miles (60 km) east of Ketchikan.
Lucy Islands Light, Chatham Sound
The Lucy Islands are a small archipelago in Chatham Sound, roughly 11 miles (17 km) west of Prince Rupert, Canada.
Larsen Bay Cannery, Kodiak Island
The Larsen Bay cannery was built in 1911 by the Alaska Packers Association to process salmon from the Karluk River.
Cape Lookout, Cape Lookout State Park
Cape Lookout is one of the most striking and scenic headlands on the Pacific Coast. The cape is a narrow headland about 2 miles long made of basaltic lava with vertical sea cliffs 800 feet high.
Whiffin Spit Light, Sooke Harbour
The narrow spit that almost landlocks Sooke Harbour was named for John George Whiffin, a clerk who served aboard HMS Herald when the Royal Navy surveyed Sooke inlet in 1846.
Akutan Whaling Station, Akutan Harbor
The Pacific Whaling Company built a processing station in 1912 across Akutan Harbor from Akutan village in the eastern Aleutian Fox Islands. It was the only whaling station in the Aleutians, and operated until 1939.
Aoyagi Maru, Lost Harbor
On December 10, 1988, the Aoyagi Maru, a 288-feet (88 m) long Japanese fish refrigerant vessel, was tied up alongside and transferring fish from the Bering Trader in Lost Harbor. A winter storm was blowing and Bering Trader’s anchor dragged.
White Alice, Cape Yakataga
Cape Yakataga is a point of land on Gulf of Alaska, about 2.4 miles southwest of Watson Peak, and 100 miles northwest of Yakutat, Alaska.
About the background graphic
This ‘warming stripe’ graphic is a visual representation of the change in global temperature from 1850 (top) to 2019 (bottom). Each stripe represents the average global temperature for one year. The average temperature from 1971-2000 is set as the boundary between blue and red. The colour scale goes from -0.7°C to +0.7°C. The data are from the UK Met Office HadCRUT4.6 dataset.
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