by CoastView | Jan 9, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, January 2025, Land Use
Point Baker is a cape on the south shore of Sumner Strait at the north end of Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska, where a small community with the same name lines the shore of a narrow water passage, about 101 miles (163 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 49 miles...
by CoastView | Jan 7, 2025 | 2025, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Islands, January 2025, Land Use, Lighthouses, Washington
Tatoosh Island is the largest of a small group of islands offshore from Cape Flattery and the site of a historic light station, situated on the Makah Reservation, about 34 miles (55 km) north of La Push and 6 miles (10 km) west-northwest of Neah Bay, Washington. Cape...
by CoastView | Jan 6, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Parks, Shelter Cabins
Kanatak is an uninhabited Alutiiq community of the Native Tribe of Kanatak located at the head of Portage Bay, on the Pacific coast of the Alaska Peninsula, about 136 miles (219 km) west-southwest of Kodiak and 65 miles (105 km) southeast of Egegik, Alaska. Portage...
by CoastView | Jan 4, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Rivers
Noatak River starts from several small cirque glaciers on the northeast flank of Mount lgikpak in the Schwatka Mountains and flows generally west for 425 miles (684 km) to Hotham Inlet in Kotzebue Sound, about 75 miles (121 km) southeast of Kivalina and 6 miles (10...
by CoastView | Jan 1, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Islands, January 2025, Land Use, Parks
Hutchins Bay is on the eastern shore of Glacier Bay, partially surrounding the Beardslee Islands, in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 155 miles (249 km) southeast of Yakutat and 8 miles (13 km) north of Gustavus, Alaska. The bay was named by the U.S....
by CoastView | Dec 29, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, December 2024, Developments, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, Rivers
Vancouver is a coastal seaport located on the Burrard Peninsula in the Fraser River Delta, between Burrard Inlet to the north and the Fraser River to the south, about 60 miles (97 km) north-northeast of Victoria and 38 miles (61 km) east-northeast of Nanaimo, British...
