by CoastView | Feb 13, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, February 2025, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Canoe.mp3 Canoe Passage is a State of Alaska Marine Park covering 2,507 acres (1,015 ha), encompassing both shores of a small-boat passage running northwest–southeast through Hawkins Island,...
by CoastView | Feb 11, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, February 2025, Headlands, Natural History
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Lewis.mp3 Cape Lewis is a 1,222-foot (372 m) promontory with steep sea cliffs situated between Ukinyak Creek to the north and Kiliktakgot Creek to the south, 11 miles (18 km) south of Cape...
by CoastView | Feb 10, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, February 2025, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dry-Strait.mp3 Dry Strait is a tidal channel in the Stikine Flats, part of the Stikine River delta separating Mitkof Island to the west from Dry Island to the east in the Stikine-LeConte...
by CoastView | Feb 9, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Embayments, February 2025, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Mines, Parks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Takli.mp3 Takli Island is in Amalik Bay, between Cape Ilktugitak to the southwest and Cape Atushagvik to the northeast, along the Shelikof Strait coast of the Alaska Peninsula in Katmai...
by CoastView | Feb 8, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, February 2025, Historical, Mines, Rivers, Shelter Cabins
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Pitmegea.mp3 The Pitmegea River originates at an elevation of about 1,300 feet (396 m) in the De Long Mountains of the western Brooks Range, and flows northwest for 37 miles (60 km) to the...
by CoastView | Feb 6, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, February 2025, Glaciers, Land Use, Parks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/McCarty.mp3 James Lagoon is a drowned cirque basin about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) wide, partially enclosed by the remains of a terminal moraine, on the western shore of McCarty Fjord in Kenai Fjords...