by CoastView | Mar 4, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Fortification-1.mp3 Fortification Bluff is a sea cliff more than 3 miles (4.8 km) long that rises almost vertically to 1,200 feet (366 m) on the south face of Step Mountain in Kamishak Bay, on...
by CoastView | Mar 3, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dirty-Glacier-1.mp3 The Dirty Glacier flows generally north for about 1.7 miles (2.7 km), from an elevation of 3,800 feet (1,158 m) in the Chugach Mountains of western Prince William Sound to...
by CoastView | Feb 28, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/South-Ledge.mp3 South Ledge is a navigational hazard in Wrangell Narrows, a water passage that extends generally south for about 22 miles (35 km) between Mitkof Island to the east and...
by CoastView | Feb 25, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Shipwrecks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Ancon-Rock.mp3 Ancon Rock is a reef located about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) off Point Gustavus on the eastern shore, at the entrance to Glacier Bay within Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve,...
by CoastView | Feb 21, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Bainbridge-1.mp3 Bainbridge Glacier originates on Pinnacle Mountain at the edge of the Sargent Icefield on the Kenai Peninsula, and flows east for 10 miles (16 km) to Port Bainbridge, about 47...
by CoastView | Feb 20, 2025 | 2025, British Columbia, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Anyox.mp3 Anyox, an abandoned mining community in the Coast Mountains, lies at the mouth of Anyox Creek on Granby Bay in Observatory Inlet, about 79 miles (127 km) north-northeast of Prince...