by CoastView | Jan 30, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Communities, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Kapaloak Creek starts from an elevation of roughly 1200 feet (366 m) in the Lisburne Hills and flows generally west for 8.5 miles (14 km) to Cape Dyer on the Chukchi Sea and the site of a historical Iñupiat village, about 110 miles (177 km) southwest of Point Lay and...
by CoastView | Jan 26, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Bear Glacier starts from an elevation of roughly 4,000 feet (1,219 m) on the eastern flank of the Harding Icefield in Kenai Fjords National Park and descends generally southeast for 17 miles (27 km) to a proglacial lake dammed by a terminal moraine between Bear...
by CoastView | Jan 23, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Land Use, Natural History
Elim is a mixed Central Yup’ik and Iñupiaq community situated on the Iditarod Trail at the mouth of Elim Creek on the Seward Peninsula and the north shore of Norton Bay, about 39 miles (63 km) southwest of Koyuk and 24 miles (38 km) east-northeast of Golovin,...
by CoastView | Jan 22, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Canneries, Communities, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Ikatan Peninsula is connected to the northeastern tip of Unimak Island by a sand spit or tombolo separating Ikatan Bay to the north from Otter Cove to the south and is the site of the historical community of Ikatan, about 143 miles (230 km) northeast of Unalaska and 8...
by CoastView | Jan 20, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Land Use, Natural History
Kenai is a community situated at the site of Shk’ituk’t, a historical Dena’ina village located on the west coast of the Kenai Peninsula, on the eastern shore of Cook Inlet at the mouth of the Kenai River, about 65 miles (15 km) southwest of Anchorage...
by CoastView | Jan 19, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History
Point Hope is an Iñupiaq whaling community also known as Tikiġaq or Tigara, situated on a barrier spit that extends northwest from Cape Thompson and joins another spit that extends southwest from the Lisburne Peninsula to enclose several lagoons including Marryat...
