by CoastView | Jun 13, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/San-Juan-Cove.mp3 San Juan Cove is a small embayment on the north shore of Tutka Bay, a deglaciated fjord on the southern shore of Kachemak Bay in the Kenai Mountains in Kachemak Bay State...
by CoastView | Jun 12, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Samalga-Island.mp3 Samalga Island is 4 miles (6 km) long and 0.5 miles (0.8 km) wide located between Umnak Island to the east and the Islands of Four Mountains to the west, approximately 317...
by CoastView | Jun 10, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Natural History
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Meares-Glacier.mp3 Meares Glacier starts at an elevation of about 7200 feet (2195 m) in the Chugach Mountains between Mount Michelson to the north and Columbia Peak to the south and trends...
by CoastView | Jun 9, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Chatham-Cannery.mp3 Chatham is a historic salmon cannery and village on the west shore of Sitkoh Bay on Chichagof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 58 miles (93...
by CoastView | Jun 6, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Nanwalek.mp3 Nanwalek is a community on English Bay, a small embayment on the eastern shore of lower Cook Inlet at the southern entrance to Port Graham on the Kenai Peninsula, about 24 miles...
by CoastView | Jun 5, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Cordova.mp3 Cordova is a community on the southeastern shore of Orca Inlet across from Hawkins Island in eastern Prince William Sound, about 100 miles (160 km) east-southeast of Whittier and...