by CoastView | Feb 8, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, February 2025, Historical, Mines, Rivers, Shelter Cabins
Pitmegea River starts from an elevation of about 1,300 feet (396 m) in the De Long Mountains of the western Brooks Range, and flows generally northwest for 37 miles (60 km), draining a watershed of about 351,053 acres (142,066 ha), to Cape Sabine on the Chukchi Sea...
by CoastView | Feb 7, 2025 | 2025, British Columbia, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, February 2025, Headlands, Historical, Lighthouses
Dryad Point is situated on the northeastern point of Campbell Island and is the site of a historic lighthouse marking the intersection of Lama Passage to the east and Seaforth Channel to the north on the Inside Passage, about 173 miles (278 km) southeast of Prince...
by CoastView | Feb 6, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, February 2025, Glaciers, Land Use, Parks
James Lagoon is a drowned cirque basin about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) wide and partially enclosed by the remains of a terminal moraine, situated on the western shore of McCarty Fjord in Kenai Fjords National Park, about 51 miles (82 km) southwest of Seward and 40 miles (64...
by CoastView | Feb 5, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, February 2025, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Rivers
Juneau is the Alaska state capital situated at the mouth of Gold Creek on Gastineau Channel, about 93 miles (150 km) northeast of Sitka and 87 miles (140 km) south-southeast of Skagway, Alaska. The community originated in 1880 as a mining camp called...
by CoastView | Feb 4, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, February 2025, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
Jug Handle Cove is a California State Natural Preserve consisting of a series of ancient marine terraces called the Ecological Staircase at the mouth of Jug Handle Creek that exhibit different stages of ecological succession, about 5 miles (8 km) south of Fort Bragg...
by CoastView | Feb 3, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, February 2025, Freshwater, Glaciers, Historical
Yale Glacier is a massive tidewater glacier in College Fjord of Prince William Sound that starts at an elevation of 9,270 feet (2,826 m) between Mount Cardozo and Mount Einstein in the Chugach Mountains and flows generally southwest for 17 miles (27 km) to Yale Arm,...
