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...
by CoastView | Jan 17, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Strawberry-Hill.mp3 Strawberry Hill is a series of uplifted beach ridges on Point Bentinck, at the eastern tip of Hinchinbrook Island and the southern entrance to Strawberry Channel, which...
by CoastView | Jan 16, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Ankau-Salt.mp3 The Ankau Saltchucks form a network of tidal lagoons in a complex estuary about 1.2 miles (1.9 km) across at the northwestern tip of the Phipps Peninsula, at the entrance to...
by CoastView | Jan 14, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Nitrogen Cycle, Parks, Phosphorus, Rivers
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Coghill-River-1.mp3 The Coghill River in Chugach National Forest flows southwest for 5 miles (8 km) from the terminus of Dartmouth Glacier to Coghill Lake, which is 4.7 miles (7.5 km) long,...
