by CoastView | Nov 13, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Mines, Parks
New Year Islands are at the mouth of Drier Bay in Knight Island Passage on the west coast of Knight Island in Prince William Sound, about 55 miles (89 km) east-northeast of Seward and 41 miles (66 km) southeast of Whittier, Alaska. The island cluster includes eight...
by CoastView | Nov 11, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Rivers
Petersburg is a community on the north end of Mitkof Island where the northern entrance to Wrangell Narrows meets Frederick Sound, about 116 miles (187 km) southeast of Juneau and 32 miles (52 km) northwest of Wrangell, Alaska. Mitkof Island is in the Alexander...
by CoastView | Nov 10, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Climate Change, Embayments, Freshwater, Glaciers, Historical
Columbia Glacier starts from ice fields at elevations over 9,000 feet (2743 m) near Mount Witherspoon in the Chugach Mountains and flows east and then generally south for 23 miles (37 km) to Columbia Bay on the north coast of Prince William Sound, about 62 miles (100...
by CoastView | Nov 9, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use
Hopkins Marine Station is a laboratory of Stanford University located on Point Cabrillo in Monterey Bay and adjacent to the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Pacific Grove, about 14 miles (23 km) south-southwest of Moss Landing and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north-northwest of...
by CoastView | Nov 6, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use
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
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...
