by CoastView | Nov 10, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Climate Change, Embayments, Freshwater, Glaciers, Historical, November 2024
Columbia Glacier starts from ice fields at elevations over 9,000 feet (2743 m) near Mount Witherspoon in the Chugach Mountains and flows east and then generally south for 23 miles (37 km) to Columbia Bay on the north coast of Prince William Sound, about 62 miles (100...
by CoastView | Nov 8, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Islands, Land Use, November 2024
Anangula Island, also known as Ananiuliak Island, is situated in the Bering Sea and is one of the Fox Islands in the eastern Aleutian Islands, separated from Umnak Island by a channel about 0.93 miles (1.50 km) wide, about 116 miles (187 km) southwest of Dutch Harbor...
by CoastView | Nov 6, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, November 2024
Portland Canal is a deglaciated fjord that extends south-southwest for 65 miles (105 km) from the community of Stewart in the north to the head of Portland Inlet in the south, forming part of the international boundary between Southeast Alaska and British Columbia,...
by CoastView | Nov 5, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, November 2024
Port Alexander is an embayment and small community on the southern tip of Baranof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 133 miles (214 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 62 miles (100 km) south-southeast of Sitka, Alaska. In 1795, the British...
by CoastView | Nov 3, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, November 2024, Rivers
Kashega is an abandoned Unangan Aleut village on the Bering Sea coast of Unalaska Island, situated on a spit between Brennan Lake and Kashega Bay, about 79 miles (127 km) northeast of Nikolski and 39 miles (63 km) southwest of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Kashega Bay was...
by CoastView | Nov 1, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Communities, Freshwater, Historical, November 2024, Rivers
Ninilchik is a community at Cape Ninilchik at the mouth of the Ninilchik River on the Kenai Peninsula and on the eastern shore of Cook Inlet, about 99 miles (160 km) southwest of Anchorage and 30 miles (48 km) north-northwest of Homer, Alaska. Road access to the...
