by CoastView | Nov 28, 2021 | 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...
by CoastView | Nov 27, 2021 | 2024, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, December 2024, Developments, Embayments, Freshwater, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Sooke is a community on the western shore of Sooke Harbour, a narrow natural embayment separated from the Strait of Juan de Fuca by Whiffin Spit, about 35 miles (56 km) southwest of Port Renfrew and 17 miles (27 km) west-southwest of Victoria, British Columbia. Sooke...
by CoastView | Nov 26, 2021 | 2024, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, December 2024, Embayments, Freshwater, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, Nitrogen Cycle, Rivers, Waterfalls
Ultramarine Glacier is located at the head of Blue Fjord, a glacial estuary that trends generally north for 4.5 miles (7.3 km) to Port Nellie Juan in western Prince William Sound on the east coast of the Kenai Peninsula, about 87 miles (140 km) west of Cordova and 26...
by CoastView | Nov 21, 2021 | 2024, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, December 2024, Embayments, Freshwater, Glaciers, Parks
Lamplugh Glacier is situated on the western shore of Glacier Bay at the entrance to Johns Hopkins Inlet in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 109 miles (175 km) southeast of Yakutat and 55 miles (89 km) northwest of Gustavus, Alaska. The Lamplugh Glacier...
by CoastView | Nov 17, 2021 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Communities, December 2024, Developments, Freshwater, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
Muir Beach is a small community situated on the west coast of the Marin Peninsula overlooking the Pacific Ocean, with the adjacent sand beach in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, about 11 miles (18 km) northwest of San Francisco and 5 miles (8 km) southeast of...
by CoastView | Nov 10, 2021 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Freshwater, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, November 2024, 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...
