by CoastView | Feb 26, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Bering River starts from a series of ice-marginal lakes and streams draining from the Martin River, Steller, and Bering glaciers, and flows generally south-southwest for 18 miles ( km) to Controller Bay on the Gulf of Alaska, about 63 miles (102 km) west of Cape...
by CoastView | Feb 24, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Parks, Washington
Browns Point is a conspicuous landmark in Puget Sound located at the southern end of East Passage and at the entrance to Commencement Bay, about 21 miles (34 km) south-southwest of Seattle and 4 miles (6.5 km) north of Tacoma, Washington. In May 1841, the U.S....
by CoastView | Feb 22, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Rabbit Creek starts at the outlet of Rabbit Lake, at the base of the west flank of North Yuyanq’ Ch’ex in the Chugach Mountains at an elevation of 3,082 feet (940 m), and flows generally west-northwest for 26 miles (42 km) draining a watershed of 9,152 acres (3,704...
by CoastView | Feb 21, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Kaigani Point is at the southwest tip of Long Island between Kaigani Strait to the west and Cordova Bay to the east, about 100 miles (161 km) northwest of Prince Rupert and 56 miles (90 km) southwest of Ketchikan, Alaska. Long Island is directly south of Sukkwan...
by CoastView | Feb 20, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
A skookumchuck is a tidal rapid that occurs at the mouth of an unnamed embayment that nearly bisects Brownson Island which is located on the west shore of Ernest Sound and separated from Etolin Island by Canoe Passage, about 47 miles (75 km) north-northwest of...
by CoastView | Feb 19, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Point Barrow is a spit that extends northeast from the mainland for 4 miles (6.4 km) into the Arctic Ocean forming Elson Lagoon to the southeast, about 150 miles (242 km) northwest of Nuiqsut and 9.8 miles (16 km) northeast of Utqiaġvik, Alaska. The point is a spit...
