by CoastView | Jan 25, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Natural History, Parks
Kuliak Bay is about 4 miles (6.5 km) wide at the entrance on the western shore of Shelikof Strait and gradually tapers to the northwest for 5 miles (8 km) into Katmai National Park and Preserve on the Alaska Peninsula, about 92 miles (148 km) southeast of King Salmon...
by CoastView | Jan 24, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Margerie Glacier starts at an elevation of 9,860 feet (3,005 m) on the international border of the United States and Canada between Mount Root to the north and Mount Fairweather to the south and flows generally east for 21 miles (34 km) to tidewater at Tarr Inlet in...
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 17, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Kotzebue is a community situated between Cape Blossom to the south and Pipe Spit to the east near the tip of the Baldwin Peninsula that separates Kotzebue Sound from Hotham Inlet, about 149 miles (240 km) southeast of Point Hope and 73 miles (117 km) west-northwest of...
by CoastView | Jan 14, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Washington
Titlow Beach is an urban neighborhood on the eastern shore of the Tacoma Narrows at the site of a historical fish camp used by the Puyallup and Nisqually tribes situated on a tidal wetland now called Titlow Lagoon, about 5.8 miles (9.4 km) south-southeast of Gig...
