by CoastView | Jan 17, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Islands, January 2025, Land Use, Parks
Strawberry Hill is formed by a series of uplifted beach ridges on Point Bentinck at the eastern extremity of Hinchinbrook Island, at the southern entrance to Strawberry Channel that separates the island from the mainland, about 53 miles (85 km) south of Valdez and 17...
by CoastView | Jan 14, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Glaciers, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Mines, Nitrogen Cycle, Parks, Phosphorus, Rivers
Coghill River is in Chugach National Forest and flows southwest for 5 miles (8 km) from the terminus of Dartmouth Glacier to Coghill Lake, which is 4.7 miles (7.5 km) long, and then west-southwest for 3 miles (4.8 km) to College Fjord near Coghill Point, about 54...
by CoastView | Jan 12, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, January 2025, Natural History
Le Conte Glacier starts from the Stikine Icefield in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, at an elevation of about 8,500 feet (2,591 m) between Devils Thumb and Mount Gilroy, and flows generally south for 22 miles (35 km) to Southeast Alaska at the head of Le...
by CoastView | Jan 11, 2025 | 2025, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
Gilttoyees Creek starts from a series of cirque basins on the east and south flank of Tentacle Peak in the Kitimat Ranges and flows generally southeast for about 20 miles (32 km) through the Foch-Gilttoyees Provincial Park and Protected Area to Gilttoyees Inlet which...
by CoastView | Jan 10, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Best of 2021, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, January 2025, Land Use
Port Moller is a small community clustered around a historic salmon cannery located on Moller Bay, an embayment on the Bering Sea coast of the Alaska Peninsula near the western margin of Bristol Bay, about 93 miles (150 km) northeast of King Cove and 87 miles (140 km)...
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...