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...
by CoastView | Jan 8, 2025 | 2025, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Parks, Shipwrecks
Tomales Point is a headland forming the northern tip of Point Reyes Peninsula within the Point Reyes National Seashore, about 45 miles (72 km) northwest of San Francisco and 7 miles (11 km) south-southeast of Bodega Bay, California. Tomales Point and the Point Reyes...
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...
