by CoastView | Dec 21, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, December 2024, Developments, Embayments, Freshwater, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Thorne Bay is a small community, and an estuary of the Thorne River on the eastern coast of Prince of Wales Island, the largest of approximately 1,100 islands interspersed by marine channels in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 55 miles (89 km)...
by CoastView | Dec 20, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, December 2024, Embayments, Freshwater, Glaciers, Land Use, Parks
Johns Hopkins Inlet is a fjord in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve that starts at the terminus of the Johns Hopkins Glacier and extends for about 10 miles (16 km) to the head of Glacier Bay, about 106 miles (171 km) southeast of Yakutat and 58 miles (93 km)...
by CoastView | Dec 19, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Canneries, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, December 2024, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use
Cannery Row is the Monterey waterfront between San Carlos Beach and Cabrillo Beach, or between the Monterey Harbor Marina and the Monterey Bay Aquarium, where several historical Pacific sardine canneries once operated, about 25 miles (40 km) south-southeast of Santa...
by CoastView | Dec 18, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, December 2024, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
Beartrack Cove is an estuary about 3 miles (4.8 km) long and 1.6 miles (2.6 km) wide situated at the mouth of the Beartrack River in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 46 miles (74 km) south-southwest of Haines and 14 miles (23 km) north-northwest of...
by CoastView | Dec 16, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, December 2024, Developments, Embayments, Freshwater, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Sooke is a community on the western shore of Sooke Harbour, a narrow natural embayment separated from the Strait of Juan de Fuca by Whiffin Spit, about 35 miles (56 km) southwest of Port Renfrew and 17 miles (27 km) west-southwest of Victoria, British Columbia. Sooke...
by CoastView | Dec 14, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Communities, December 2024, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Mines, Rivers
Ketchikan is a coastal community and U.S. port of entry on the north shore of Tongass Narrows, on the southern coast of Revillagigedo Island, about 88 miles (142 km) northwest of Prince Rupert and 84 miles (135 km) south-southeast of Wrangell, Alaska. Tongass Narrows...
