by CoastView | Jan 7, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Glaciers, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Fourpeaked Glacier starts from the eastern flank of Fourpeaked Mountain with a summit elevation of 6771 feet (2,064 m) and flows generally east for 6 miles (10 km) to a proglacial lake about 2.5 miles (4 km) long that is drained by a river that flows another 0.8 miles...
by CoastView | Sep 4, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Embayments, Glaciers
South Sawyer Glacier starts in British Columbia and flows northwest for 31 miles (50 km) to the head of Tracy Arm, about 73 miles (118 km) north of Petersburg and 56 miles (90 km) southeast of Juneau, Alaska. The glacier was named in 1889 by Commander H.B. Mansfield...
by CoastView | Sep 1, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Embayments, Glaciers
Tsaa Glacier flows about 8 miles (13 km) southeast from the northeast flank of the Robinson Mountains and terminates in Tsaa Fjord, on the western coast of Icy Bay, about 147 miles (237 km) east-southeast of Cordova and 75 miles (121 km) northwest of Yakutat, Alaska....
by CoastView | Aug 29, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Embayments, Glaciers
Lituya Glacier starts on the south flank of Mount Wilbur in the Fairweather Range and flows west for 8 miles (13 km) to Desolation Valley, and then turns southeast and flows for 2.6 miles (4 km) to Gilbert Inlet at the head of Lituya Bay, about 100 miles (162 km)...
by CoastView | Aug 18, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Best of 2024, Embayments, Glaciers
Dawes Glacier starts near the Alaska-Canada boundary and flows northwest for 20 miles (32 km) to tidewater in Endicott Arm, about 100 miles (161 km) northeast of Sitka and 80 miles (129 km) southeast of Juneau, Alaska. The glacier was named in 1891 by the U.S. Coast...
by CoastView | Aug 11, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Embayments, Glaciers, Waterfalls
An unnamed glacier hangs above a cirque on the southern shore of Endicott Arm, a fjord in the Coast Mountains of Southeast Alaska that extends northwest for 33 miles (53 km) from the terminus of the Dawes Glacier to Holkham Bay, 80 miles (129 km) southeast of Juneau...
