by CoastView | Dec 24, 2021 | 2021, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Natural History
Le Conte Glacier starts from the Stikine Icefield in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, at an elevation of about 8,500 feet (2,591 m) between Devils Thumb and Mount Gilroy, and flows generally south for 22 miles (35 km) to the head of Le Conte Bay in Southeast...
by CoastView | Dec 23, 2021 | 2021, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
Gilttoyees Creek starts from a series of cirque basins on the east and south flank of Tentacle Peak in the Kitimat Ranges and flows generally southeast for about 20 miles (32 km) through the Foch-Gilttoyees Provincial Park and Protected Area to Gilttoyees Inlet which...
by CoastView | Dec 22, 2021 | 2021, Alaska, Best of 2021, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use
Port Moller is a small community clustered around a historical salmon cannery located on Moller Bay, an embayment on the Bering Sea coast of the Alaska Peninsula near the western margin of Bristol Bay, about 93 miles (150 km) northeast of King Cove and 87 miles (140...
by CoastView | Dec 21, 2021 | 2021, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Point Baker is a cape on the south shore of Sumner Strait at the north end of Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska, where a small community with the same name lines the shore of a narrow water passage, about 101 miles (163 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 49 miles...
by CoastView | Dec 20, 2021 | 2021, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Shipwrecks
Tomales Point is a headland forming the northern tip of Point Reyes Peninsula within the Point Reyes National Seashore, about 45 miles (72 km) northwest of San Francisco and 7 miles (11 km) south-southeast of Bodega Bay, California. Tomales Point and the Point Reyes...
by CoastView | Dec 19, 2021 | 2021, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Washington
Tatoosh Island is the largest of a small group of islands offshore from Cape Flattery and the site of a historical light station, situated on the Makah Reservation, about 34 miles (55 km) north of La Push and 6 miles (10 km) west-northwest of Neah Bay, Washington....
