by CoastView | Dec 6, 2021 | 2021, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
West Glacier Creek flows generally south-southeast for about 7 miles (11 km) to the north shore of Chinitna Bay, draining a watershed between the Chigmit Mountains and Mount Iliamna, about 83 miles (134 km) southwest of Kenai and 60 miles (97 km) west-northwest of...
by CoastView | Dec 5, 2021 | 2021, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Parks, Washington
Turn Point is a headland with a historical light station on the northwest coast of Stuart Island, located on property that is part of the San Juan Islands National Monument, about 34 miles (55 km) west of Bellingham and 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Friday Harbor,...
by CoastView | Dec 4, 2021 | 2021, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, Parks
Grand Pacific Glacier flows from elevations between 4,925-9,845 feet (1500–3000 m) on the British Columbia-Alaska boundary to Tarr Inlet in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 100 miles (161 km) southeast of Yakutat and 66 miles (106 km) north-northwest of...
by CoastView | Dec 3, 2021 | 2021, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Rivers
Anacla is a community of the Huu-ay-aht First Nation on the Pachena River near the head of Pachena Bay, about 37 miles (60 km) northwest of Port Renfrew and 2.4 miles (4 km) south-southwest of Bamfield, British Columbia. The Huu-ay-aht are part of the larger culture...
by CoastView | Dec 2, 2021 | 2021, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Freshwater, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Thorne Bay is a small community, and an estuary of the Thorne River on the eastern coast of Prince of Wales Island, the largest of approximately 1,100 islands interspersed by marine channels in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 55 miles (89 km)...
by CoastView | Dec 1, 2021 | 2021, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Freshwater, Glaciers, Land Use, Parks
Johns Hopkins Inlet is a fjord that starts at the terminus of the Johns Hopkins Glacier and extends for about 10 miles (16 km) to the head of Glacier Bay, about 106 miles (171 km) southeast of Yakutat and 58 miles (93 km) northwest of Gustavus, Alaska. The fjord has...
