by CoastView | Feb 3, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, February 2025, Freshwater, Glaciers, Historical
Yale Glacier is a massive tidewater glacier in College Fjord of Prince William Sound that starts at an elevation of 9,270 feet (2,826 m) between Mount Cardozo and Mount Einstein in the Chugach Mountains and flows generally southwest for 17 miles (27 km) to Yale Arm,...
by CoastView | Jan 29, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Freshwater, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Parks
Lobos Creek is a stream in the Presidio of San Francisco that drains urban runoff and underground springs, and flows intermittently west for 1 mile (1.6 km) from near Mountain Lake to the Pacific Ocean between Baker Beach and China Beach, about 5 miles (8 km) west of...
by CoastView | Jan 25, 2025 | 2025, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Freshwater, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Rivers
Cowichan Bay is a community situated on the south shore of an estuary shared by the Cowichan and Koksilah Rivers that form an extensive tidal flat on the east coast of southern Vancouver Island, about 26 miles (42 km) north-northwest of Victoria and 4 miles (6 km)...
by CoastView | Dec 21, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, December 2024, Developments, Embayments, Freshwater, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Thorne Bay is a small community, and an estuary of the Thorne River on the eastern coast of Prince of Wales Island, the largest of approximately 1,100 islands interspersed by marine channels in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 55 miles (89 km)...
by CoastView | Dec 20, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, December 2024, Embayments, Freshwater, Glaciers, Land Use, Parks
Johns Hopkins Inlet is a fjord in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve that starts at the terminus of the Johns Hopkins Glacier and extends for about 10 miles (16 km) to the head of Glacier Bay, about 106 miles (171 km) southeast of Yakutat and 58 miles (93 km)...
by CoastView | Dec 17, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, December 2024, Embayments, Freshwater, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, Parks
Fords Terror is a fjord in the Coast Mountains of Southeast Alaska that trends generally south for 8 miles (13 km) to Endicott Arm, about 64 miles (103 km) southeast of Juneau and 57 miles (92 km) north-northwest of Petersburg, Alaska. The fjord was named in 1889 by...
