by CoastView | Mar 4, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Fortification-1.mp3 Fortification Bluff is a sea cliff more than 3 miles (4.8 km) long that rises almost vertically to 1,200 feet (366 m) on the south face of Step Mountain in Kamishak Bay, on...
by CoastView | Mar 3, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dirty-Glacier-1.mp3 The Dirty Glacier flows generally north for about 1.7 miles (2.7 km), from an elevation of 3,800 feet (1,158 m) in the Chugach Mountains of western Prince William Sound to...
by CoastView | Feb 28, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/South-Ledge.mp3 South Ledge is a navigational hazard in Wrangell Narrows, a water passage that extends generally south for about 22 miles (35 km) between Mitkof Island to the east and...
by CoastView | Feb 27, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Communities, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Selawik-1.mp3 The Selawik River is about 140 miles (226 km) long, originating in the Purcell Mountains near the Zane Hills, and flows generally west through the Selawik National Wildlife...
by CoastView | Feb 25, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Shipwrecks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Ancon-Rock.mp3 Ancon Rock is a reef located about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) off Point Gustavus on the eastern shore, at the entrance to Glacier Bay within Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve,...
by CoastView | Feb 24, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Barren-Islands.mp3 Barren Islands are the northernmost of the Kodiak Archipelago, located near Lower Cook Inlet, between Stevenson Entrance to the south and Kennedy Entrance to the north,...