by CoastView | Feb 13, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Canoe.mp3 Canoe Passage is a State of Alaska Marine Park covering 2,507 acres (1,015 ha), encompassing both shores of a small-boat passage running northwest–southeast through Hawkins Island,...
by CoastView | Feb 11, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Headlands, Natural History
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Lewis.mp3 Cape Lewis is a 1,222-foot (372 m) promontory with steep sea cliffs situated between Ukinyak Creek to the north and Kiliktakgot Creek to the south, 11 miles (18 km) south of Cape...
by CoastView | Feb 10, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dry-Strait.mp3 Dry Strait is a tidal channel in the Stikine Flats, part of the Stikine River delta separating Mitkof Island to the west from Dry Island to the east in the Stikine-LeConte...
by CoastView | Feb 8, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Historical, Mines, Rivers, Shelter Cabins
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Pitmegea.mp3 The Pitmegea River originates at an elevation of about 1,300 feet (396 m) in the De Long Mountains of the western Brooks Range, and flows northwest for 37 miles (60 km) to the...
by CoastView | Feb 7, 2025 | 2025, British Columbia, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Headlands, Historical, Lighthouses
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dryad.mp3 Dryad Point is on the northeastern point of Campbell Island and is the site of a historic lighthouse that marks the intersection of Lama Passage to the east and Seaforth Channel to...
by CoastView | Feb 6, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Glaciers, Land Use, Parks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/McCarty.mp3 James Lagoon is a drowned cirque basin about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) wide, partially enclosed by the remains of a terminal moraine, on the western shore of McCarty Fjord in Kenai Fjords...