by CoastView | Sep 14, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Climate Change, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Rivers
Portage is a historical community and railroad siding at milepost 64.2 on the Alaska Railroad at the head of Turnagain Arm in the Chugach National Forest, about 41 miles (66 km) south of Anchorage and 11 miles (18 km) northwest of Whittier, Alaska. Portage was once a...
by CoastView | Aug 5, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Canneries, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Freshwater, Glaciers, Historical, Rivers
Situk River starts at Situk Lake and flows southwest for about 18 miles (29 km) through the Yakutat Forelands in Tongass National Forest to Johnson Slough on the Gulf of Alaska, about 200 miles (322 km) northwest of Juneau and 9 miles (15 km) southeast of Yakutat,...
by CoastView | Jul 31, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Glaciers, Islands, Land Use, Mines, Natural History, Rivers
The Copper River watershed drains about 24,000 square miles (62,000 sq km) in the Wrangell, Chugach, and Saint Elias mountains and the mainstem flows for about 290 miles (470 km) to the Gulf of Alaska where it creates a wide delta, about 195 miles west-northwest of...
by CoastView | Jul 29, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Climate Change, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Islands, Parks, Shipwrecks
Cenotaph Island is approximately in the middle of Lituya Bay, a fjord formed primarily by the Crillon and Lituya glaciers in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 117 miles (189 km) west-northwest of Juneau and 97 miles (156 km) southeast of Yakutat, Alaska....
by CoastView | Jul 25, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Islands, Parks, Rivers
Tuxedni Bay is an estuary that extends southeast for 14 miles (23 km) from the mouth of Tuxedni River to Cook Inlet at Chisik Island, about 59 miles (95 km) northwest of Homer and 57 miles (92 km) southwest of Kenai, Alaska. The Dena’ina name for the bay was...
by CoastView | Jun 18, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Parks
Icy Bay is on the Gulf of Alaska coast in Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve, about 154 miles (248 km) southeast of Cordova and 65 miles (105 km) northwest of Yakutat, Alaska. Until the beginning of the 20th century, the bay entrance was blocked by a...
