by CoastView | Nov 28, 2022 | 2022, Best of 2020, Communities, Embayments, Oregon
Coast Guard Station Tillamook Bay is an active-duty U.S. Coast Guard facility located in Garibaldi on Tillamook Bay, 7.5 miles (12 km) northwest of the community of Tillamook, Oregon. The current station has been operating since 1942 and is a nationally recognized...
by CoastView | Nov 22, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Best of 2020, Headlands, Lighthouses
Cape Decision is a headland on the southern end of Kuiu Island in Southeast Alaska, 105 miles (169 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 75 miles (121 km) southwest of Wrangell, Alaska. The cape was named in 1793 by Captain George Vancouver because here he decided the...
by CoastView | Oct 16, 2020 | 2020, Alaska, Best of 2020, Embayments, Glaciers
Dawes Glacier starts near the Alaska-Canada boundary and flows northwest for 20 miles (32 km) to tidewater in Endicott Arm, about 100 miles (161 km) northeast of Sitka and 80 miles (129 km) southeast of Juneau, Alaska. The glacier was named in 1891 by the U.S. Coast...
by CoastView | Oct 7, 2020 | 2020, Alaska, Best of 2020, Embayments, Glaciers, Waterfalls
An unnamed glacier hangs above a cirque on the southern shore of Endicott Arm, a fjord in the Coast Mountains of Southeast Alaska that extends northwest for 33 miles (53 km) from the terminus of the Dawes Glacier to Holkham Bay, 80 miles (129 km) southeast of Juneau...
by CoastView | Aug 19, 2020 | 2020, Alaska, Best of 2020, Glaciers, Waterfalls
The Kashteen Peninsula is located in Icy Bay and is emerging from under the retreating Guyot Glacier, about 149 miles (240 km) east-southeast of Cordova and 73 miles (118 km) northwest of Yakutat, Alaska. The peninsula was completely covered by the glacier when it was...
by CoastView | Jun 24, 2020 | 2020, Alaska, Best of 2020, Islands, Shipwrecks
Cape Pankof is a point of land on the southeast tip of the lkatan Peninsula on the southeast coast of Unimak Island, 148 miles (239 km) northeast of Dutch Harbor and 18 miles (29 km) southeast of False Pass, Alaska. The Russian name was first published in 1847 as...
