by CoastView | Nov 6, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, November 2024
Portland Canal is a deglaciated fjord that extends south-southwest for 65 miles (105 km) from the community of Stewart in the north to the head of Portland Inlet in the south, forming part of the international boundary between Southeast Alaska and British Columbia,...
by CoastView | Nov 5, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, November 2024
Port Alexander is an embayment and small community on the southern tip of Baranof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 133 miles (214 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 62 miles (100 km) south-southeast of Sitka, Alaska. In 1795, the British...
by CoastView | Nov 4, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, California, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Freshwater, Historical, Land Use, Nitrogen Cycle, November 2024, Phosphorus, Rivers
Elkhorn Slough is an estuary about 7 miles (11 km) long that connects with Monterey Bay at the community of Moss Landing, about 17 miles (27 km) southeast of Santa Cruz and 16 miles (26 km) north-northeast of Monterey, California. Elkhorn Slough is the third-largest...
by CoastView | Nov 3, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, November 2024, Rivers
Kashega is an abandoned Unangan Aleut village on the Bering Sea coast of Unalaska Island, situated on a spit between Brennan Lake and Kashega Bay, about 79 miles (127 km) northeast of Nikolski and 39 miles (63 km) southwest of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Kashega Bay was...
by CoastView | Nov 1, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Communities, Freshwater, Historical, November 2024, Rivers
Ninilchik is a community at Cape Ninilchik at the mouth of the Ninilchik River on the Kenai Peninsula and on the eastern shore of Cook Inlet, about 99 miles (160 km) southwest of Anchorage and 30 miles (48 km) north-northwest of Homer, Alaska. Road access to the...
by CoastView | Oct 31, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use
Metlakatla is a small Tsimshian community located on the northern shore of Venn Passage, about 87 miles (140 km) southeast of Ketchikan and 5 miles (8 km) west-northwest of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. The village is one of the seven remaining Tsimshian...
