by CoastView | Mar 28, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Natural History, Parks
Lawrence Glacier starts from several cirques situated at the northern extent of the Kenai Mountains at an elevation of roughly 3,000 feet (915 m) and flows generally northwest for 2.4 miles (4 km) to within a few hundred feet of tidewater at the south end of Willard...
by CoastView | Mar 20, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Pedersen Lagoon receives freshwater from proglacial lakes of the Addison and Pedersen glaciers that descend from the Harding Icefield in Kenai Fjords National Park on the western shore of Aialik Bay, about 64 miles (103 km) east-northeast of Homer and 19 miles (31 km)...
by CoastView | Mar 18, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Climate Change, Embayments, Islands, Natural History
Bodfish Island is part of the Jones Island barrier chain between Cottle Island to the east and Bertoncini Island to the west, separating Simpson Lagoon from the Beaufort Sea, about 178 miles (286 km) southeast of Utqiagvik and 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Deadhorse,...
by CoastView | Mar 12, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Natural History
Shoup Glacier starts at an elevation of roughly 6,800 feet (2,073 m) in the Chugach Mountains between Mount Shouplina to the west and Mount Logan to the east, and flows 16 miles (26 km) generally south-southwest to Shoup Bay on the northwest shore of Port Valdez in...
by CoastView | Mar 11, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Washington
Toke Point is at the end of Tokeland Spit that projects southeast for 3 miles (5 km) from the northern shore of Willapa Bay, a large estuary formed by several streams, the largest being Willapa River, about 55 miles (89 km) southwest of Olympia and 15 miles (24 km)...
by CoastView | Mar 10, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, California, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History
Stinson Beach is a community on Bolinas Bay developed on a crescent-shaped sand spit partially enclosing Bolinas Lagoon between Duxbury Point to the northwest and Rocky Point to the south, about 15 miles (24 km) northwest of San Francisco and 14 miles (23 km)...
