by CoastView | Mar 7, 2026 | 2026, Alaska, Best of 2023, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, March 2026, Natural History
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/OldChenega.mp3 Old Chenega is a historic village at the head of Chenega Cove on the southern tip of Chenega Island in western Prince William Sound, about 82 miles (132 km) west-south-west of...
by CoastView | Mar 6, 2026 | 2026, Alaska, Beaches, Best of 2023, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, March 2026
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/CoalPoint.mp3 Coal Point forms the tip of the Homer Spit in Kachemak Bay on the southern Kenai Peninsula, about 15 miles (24 km) north-east of Seldovia and 5.7 miles (9 km) south-east of...
by CoastView | Feb 23, 2026 | 2026, Beaches, Best of 2023, California, Embayments, February 2026, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Shipwrecks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/TennesseeCove-1.mp3 Tennessee Cove is an embayment with a sandy beach roughly 600 feet (180 m) long on the Pacific Ocean, between Pirates Cove to the north and Rodeo Cove to the south, in the...
by CoastView | Feb 22, 2026 | 2026, Alaska, Best of 2023, Communities, Embayments, Islands, Land Use
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ElfinCove.mp3 Elfin Cove is an embayment extending south from Cross Sound for 1 mile (1.6 km), narrowing to just over 100 feet (30 m) on the western shore of the Inian Peninsula at Chichagof...
by CoastView | Dec 3, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Best of 2023, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Rolph, or Ralph Slough is a tidal creek in an area of grass meadows and numerous unnamed sloughs that cut through vast mud flats on the left bank near the mouth of the Nushagak River at Nushagak Point, about 55 miles (89 km) west-northwest of Naknek and 6 miles (10...
by CoastView | Nov 16, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Best of 2023, Coastal Features, Parks
A sealing observation tower used seasonally by Iñupiat hunters is at the tip of Cape Krusenstern, about 48 miles (77 km) southeast of Kivalina and 35 miles (56 km) northwest of Kotzebue, Alaska. Observation towers are used for locating open water where seals...
