by CoastView | Jan 30, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Communities, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Kapaloak Creek starts from an elevation of roughly 1200 feet (366 m) in the Lisburne Hills and flows generally west for 8.5 miles (14 km) to Cape Dyer on the Chukchi Sea and the site of a historical Iñupiat village, about 110 miles (177 km) southwest of Point Lay and...
by CoastView | Jan 27, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Mines, Natural History
Blubber Bay is a community and an embayment on the northern tip of Texada Island, between the Strait of Georgia to the west and Malaspina Strait to the east, and the site of a historical shore whaling station and present-day limestone mine, about 76 miles (122 km)...
by CoastView | Jan 23, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Land Use, Natural History
Elim is a mixed Central Yup’ik and Iñupiaq community situated on the Iditarod Trail at the mouth of Elim Creek on the Seward Peninsula and the north shore of Norton Bay, about 39 miles (63 km) southwest of Koyuk and 24 miles (38 km) east-northeast of Golovin,...
by CoastView | Jan 22, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Canneries, Communities, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Ikatan Peninsula is connected to the northeastern tip of Unimak Island by a sand spit or tombolo separating Ikatan Bay to the north from Otter Cove to the south and is the site of the historical community of Ikatan, about 143 miles (230 km) northeast of Unalaska and 8...
by CoastView | Jan 21, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Land Use, Natural History
Whittier is a community and marine terminal for the Alaska Railroad and cruise ships, situated on the alluvial fan of Whittier Creek on the south shore of Passage Canal, a deglaciated fjord in northwestern Prince William Sound, about 82 miles (132 km) west-southwest...
by CoastView | Jan 20, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Land Use, Natural History
Kenai is a community situated at the site of Shk’ituk’t, a historical Dena’ina village located on the west coast of the Kenai Peninsula, on the eastern shore of Cook Inlet at the mouth of the Kenai River, about 65 miles (15 km) southwest of Anchorage...
