by CoastView | Nov 26, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, November 2024, Parks
Botanical Beach is located on San Juan Point in Botany Bay at the northern end of Juan de Fuca Provincial Park on the south coast of Vancouver Island, about 50 miles (80 km) west-northwest of Victoria and 2 miles (3 km) south-southwest of Port Renfrew, British...
by CoastView | Nov 25, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Freshwater, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, November 2024
Chenega Glacier starts at an elevation of over 5,000 feet (1524 m) in the Sargent Icefield in Chugach National Forest and flows northeast for 10 miles (16 km) and then east for 4 miles (6 km) to Nassau Fjord on the western shore of Prince William Sound on the Kenai...
by CoastView | Nov 24, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, November 2024
Akhiok is the southernmost Alutiiq Sugpiat village on Kodiak Island, situated on Akhiok Bay which is on the western shore of Alitak Bay, about 167 miles (269 km) east-northeast of Chignik and 87 miles (140 km) southwest of Kodiak, Alaska. This location was settled in...
by CoastView | Nov 17, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, November 2024, Rivers, Shipwrecks
Fourth of July Creek originates from a series of unnamed glaciers and snowfields on the Resurrection Peninsula in the Chugach Mountains on the Kenai Peninsula, and flows generally west for 3.2 miles (5 km) to an alluvial fan where it joins Godwin River and then flows...
by CoastView | Nov 10, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Climate Change, Embayments, Freshwater, Glaciers, Historical, November 2024
Columbia Glacier starts from ice fields at elevations over 9,000 feet (2743 m) near Mount Witherspoon in the Chugach Mountains and flows east and then generally south for 23 miles (37 km) to Columbia Bay on the north coast of Prince William Sound, about 62 miles (100...
by CoastView | Nov 8, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Islands, Land Use, November 2024
Anangula Island, also known as Ananiuliak Island, is situated in the Bering Sea and is one of the Fox Islands in the eastern Aleutian Islands, separated from Umnak Island by a channel about 0.93 miles (1.50 km) wide, about 116 miles (187 km) southwest of Dutch Harbor...
