by CoastView | Feb 28, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, February 2025, Historical, Islands, Land Use
South Ledge is a navigational hazard in Wrangell Narrows, a water passage that extends generally south for about 22 miles (35 km) between Mitkof Island to the east and Kupreanof and Woewodski Islands to the west, about 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Wrangell and 12...
by CoastView | Feb 27, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Communities, February 2025, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
The Selawik River is about 140 miles (226 km) long, originating in the Purcell Mountains near the Zane Hills, and flows generally west through the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge to Selawik Lake that drains into Kotzebue Sound, about 65 miles (105 km) southeast of...
by CoastView | Feb 26, 2025 | 2025, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Climate Change, Coastal Features, February 2025, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Randall Island is part of the Dundas Archipelago, a group of islands in Hecate Strait on the west side of Chatham Sound between Brown and Caamaño Passages, about 74 miles (119 km) southeast of Ketchikan and 22 miles (35 km) west-northwest of Prince Rupert, British...
by CoastView | Feb 25, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, February 2025, Glaciers, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Shipwrecks
Ancon Rock is a reef located about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) off Point Gustavus on the eastern shore, at the entrance to Glacier Bay within Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 55 miles (89 km) west of Juneau and 8.5 miles (12 km) southwest of Gustavus, Alaska. The...
by CoastView | Feb 24, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, February 2025, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Barren Islands are the northernmost of the Kodiak Archipelago, located near Lower Cook Inlet, between Stevenson Entrance to the south and Kennedy Entrance to the north, about 80 miles (129 km) north of Kodiak and 56 miles (90 km) southwest of Homer, Alaska. The...
by CoastView | Feb 23, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, California, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, February 2025, Historical, Land Use
Westport is a historic timber export community on the Mendocino coast, where lumber schooners were loaded using long chutes built across nearshore rocks, about 83 miles (134 km) south-southeast of Eureka and 13 miles (21 km) north of Fort Bragg, California. The...
