by CoastView | Nov 16, 2023 | 2021, Alaska, Beaches, Best of 2023, Coastal Features, Parks
A sealing observation tower used seasonally by Iñupiat hunters is at the tip of Cape Krusenstern, about 48 miles (77 km) southeast of Kivalina and 35 miles (56 km) northwest of Kotzebue, Alaska. Observation towers are used for locating open water where seals...
by CoastView | Dec 31, 2021 | 2021, British Columbia, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Rivers
Stewart is a Canadian border community at the mouth of the Bear River and the head of Portland Canal, connected to Hyder, Alaska by 2 miles (3.2 km) of road, about 99 miles (159 km) east-southeast of Wrangell and 114 miles (183 km) north of Prince Rupert, British...
by CoastView | Dec 30, 2021 | 2021, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks
Strawberry Hill is formed by a series of uplifted beach ridges on Point Bentinck at the eastern extremity of Hinchinbrook Island, at the southern entrance to Strawberry Channel that separates the island from the mainland, about 53 miles (85 km) south of Valdez and 17...
by CoastView | Dec 29, 2021 | 2021, Alaska, Best of 2021, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use
Ankau Saltchucks are a series of interconnected tidal lagoons forming a complex estuary about 1.2 miles (1.9 km) across on the northwestern end of the Phipps Peninsula at the entrance to Yakutat Bay and the west shore of Monti Bay, about 215 miles (346 km) southeast...
by CoastView | Dec 28, 2021 | 2021, Beaches, California, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Parks
Fort Cronkhite is a historical U.S. Army facility that supported Battery Townsley, part of the coastal artillery defenses of San Francisco Bay on the Marin Headlands during World War II and now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, about 8 miles (13 km)...
by CoastView | Dec 27, 2021 | 2021, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Nitrogen Cycle, Parks, Phosphorus, Rivers
Coghill River is in Chugach National Forest and flows southwest for 5 miles (8 km) from the terminus of Dartmouth Glacier to Coghill Lake, which is 4.7 miles (7.5 km) long, and then west-southwest for 3 miles (4.8 km) to College Fjord near Coghill Point, about 54...
