by CoastView | Mar 7, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Leffingwell Camp is situated on Flaxman Island, a shape-shifting barrier island separating the Beaufort Sea to the north and Lion Bay to the south, about 58 miles (94 km) east of Deadhorse and 58 miles (94 km) west of Kaktovik, Alaska. Barrier islands stretch across...
by CoastView | Mar 5, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Makarius Bay is on the southeastern coast of Amchitka Island, the southernmost of the Rat Islands group in the Aleutian Islands of Southwest Alaska, bounded by the Bering Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south, about 2500 miles (4024 km) north-northwest...
by CoastView | Mar 4, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Dinglestadt Glacier has two land terminating lobes that straddle a watershed divide in the Kenai Mountains, with a minor lobe descending southeast for 4 miles (6 km) from an elevation of roughly 3300 feet (1006 m) to a tidal delta on the western shore of McCarty...
by CoastView | Mar 1, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Boot Bay is 3 miles (5 km) west of Kagalaska Strait on the south coast of Adak Island, the site of intensive military activity from 1942 to 1997, near the western extent of the Andreanof Islands group of the Aleutian Islands, about 443 miles (713 km) southwest of...
by CoastView | Feb 28, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Headlands, Land Use, Natural History
Alokut Point is a steep promontory with a summit elevation of 1015 feet (310 m) that represents an abrupt change in direction of the Cape Lisburne coastline and forms the northwest terminus of the Lisburne Hills, about 100 miles (160 km) southwest of Point Lay and 39...
by CoastView | Feb 27, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
McBride Glacier starts from a series of cirques at elevations near 5500 feet (1676 m) on the southern flank of the Takhinsha Mountains in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve and flows generally south for roughly 10 miles (16 km) to McBride Inlet which connects to...