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...
by CoastView | Jun 3, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Point-Lonely.mp3 Originally a Cold War Distant Early Warning facility, Lonely was decommissioned in 2018 and is now an unattended airstrip on the Beaufort Sea coast at Pitt Point, about 83...
by CoastView | Jun 2, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Rose-Inlet.mp3 Rose Inlet is a sheltered embayment, and the site of a historical salmon cannery, which extends southwest for 2.5 miles (4 km) from Kaigani Strait on the east coast of Dall...
