by CoastView | Dec 3, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Parks
Verdant Cove is on the western shore of Aialik Bay in Kenai Fjords National Park at the northern entrance to Dora Passage, about 64 miles (103 km) east of Homer and 30 miles (48 km) south-southwest of Seward, Alaska. Verdant Cove is locally named after an adjacent...
by CoastView | Dec 2, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Shelter Cabins
York Island is situated at the entrance to Manzanita Cove in Wales Passage, which separates Wales Island from Pearse Island at the head of Dixon Entrance, about 63 miles (101 km) southeast of Ketchikan and 32 miles (51 km) north of Prince Rupert, British Columbia....
by CoastView | Dec 1, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks
Whalers Cove is a bight on the northeastern shore of Killisnoo Island located in Chatham Strait along the central west coast of Admiralty Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 42 miles (68 km) northeast of Sitka and 2.5 miles (4 km) south of...
by CoastView | Nov 29, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Freshwater, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Thoms Place is an embayment, and a widely distributed remote community, along Zimovia Strait on the southwest coast of Wrangell Island, about 62 miles (100 km) north-northwest of Ketchikan and 22 miles (35 km) south-southeast of Wrangell, Alaska. Zimovia Strait is a...
by CoastView | Nov 26, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Botanical Beach is located on San Juan Point in Botany Bay at the northern end of Juan de Fuca Provincial Park on the south coast of Vancouver Island, about 50 miles (80 km) west-northwest of Victoria and 2 miles (3 km) south-southwest of Port Renfrew, British...
by CoastView | Nov 25, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Freshwater, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use
Chenega Glacier starts at an elevation of over 5,000 feet (1524 m) in the Sargent Icefield in Chugach National Forest and flows northeast for 10 miles (16 km) and then east for 4 miles (6 km) to Nassau Fjord on the western shore of Prince William Sound on the Kenai...
