by CoastView | Jan 28, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Westdahl.mp3 Mount Westdahl, also known as Westdahl Peak, is a relatively young, glacier-capped volcano with a summit elevation of 5,118 feet (1,560 m) situated at the southwest end of Unimak...
by CoastView | Jan 26, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Hatcheries, Historical, Land Use, Rivers
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Little-Port-Walter.mp3 Little Port Walter is an embayment and research facility on the southern shore of Port Walter, situated on the southeastern coast of Baranof Island and the western shore...
by CoastView | Jan 24, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Atmospheric Aerosols, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Rivers
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Eagle-River.mp3 Eagle River Flats is a 2,471‐acre (1,000 ha) tidal flat and salt marsh at the mouth of Eagle River on Eagle Bay, on the eastern shore of Knik Arm at Joint Base...
by CoastView | Jan 23, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks, Shipwrecks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Sledge-Island.mp3 Sledge Island, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) across, lies in the Bering Sea, 5 miles (8 km) off the Seward Peninsula’s south coast, about 95 miles (153 km) southeast of Wales and 25...
by CoastView | Jan 21, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Climate Change, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Parks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Reid-Glacier.mp3 Reid Glacier flows north for 11 miles (18 km) from the Brady Icefield to Reid Inlet in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 113 miles (182 km) southeast of Yakutat...
by CoastView | Jan 19, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Canneries, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Icy-Strait-Point.mp3 Icy Strait Point is a restored salmon cannery on Cannery Point, located on the south shore of Icy Strait and at the eastern mouth of Port Frederick—a deep embayment on the...
