by CoastView | Nov 14, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Freshwater, Historical, Islands, Land Use, November 2024, Parks, Rivers, Washington
La Push is the traditional community of the Quileute people situated at the mouth of the Quillayute River within the Quileute Indian Reservation and surrounded by the coastal strip of Olympic National Park, about 32 miles (51 km) south of Neah Bay and 12 miles (19 km)...
by CoastView | Nov 13, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Mines, November 2024, Parks
New Year Islands are at the mouth of Drier Bay in Knight Island Passage on the west coast of Knight Island in Prince William Sound, about 55 miles (89 km) east-northeast of Seward and 41 miles (66 km) southeast of Whittier, Alaska. The island cluster includes eight...
by CoastView | Nov 12, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, November 2024, Parks
Prager Islands is a group of islands, islets, and tidal reefs in Hecate Strait, situated between Dolphin Island to the east and Goschen Island to the northwest, which are part of the Gitxaala Nii Luutiksm Conservancy within the Great Bear Rainforest, about 39 miles...
by CoastView | Nov 11, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, November 2024, Rivers
Petersburg is a community on the north end of Mitkof Island where the northern entrance to Wrangell Narrows meets Frederick Sound, about 116 miles (187 km) southeast of Juneau and 32 miles (52 km) northwest of Wrangell, Alaska. Mitkof Island is in the Alexander...
by CoastView | Nov 10, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Climate Change, Embayments, Freshwater, Glaciers, Historical, November 2024
Columbia Glacier starts from ice fields at elevations over 9,000 feet (2743 m) near Mount Witherspoon in the Chugach Mountains and flows east and then generally south for 23 miles (37 km) to Columbia Bay on the north coast of Prince William Sound, about 62 miles (100...
by CoastView | Nov 9, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, November 2024
Hopkins Marine Station is a laboratory of Stanford University located on Point Cabrillo in Monterey Bay and adjacent to the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Pacific Grove, about 14 miles (23 km) south-southwest of Moss Landing and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north-northwest of...
