by CoastView | Jan 23, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks, Shipwrecks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Sledge-Island.mp3 Sledge Island, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) across, lies in the Bering Sea, 5 miles (8 km) off the Seward Peninsula’s south coast, about 95 miles (153 km) southeast of Wales and 25...
by CoastView | Jan 17, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Strawberry-Hill.mp3 Strawberry Hill is a series of uplifted beach ridges on Point Bentinck, at the eastern tip of Hinchinbrook Island and the southern entrance to Strawberry Channel, which...
by CoastView | Jan 9, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Point-Baker.mp3 Point Baker is a cape on the south shore of Sumner Strait at the north end of Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska, where a small community with the same name lines the...
by CoastView | Jan 7, 2025 | 2025, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Washington
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Tatoosh-Island.mp3 Tatoosh Island, the largest in a small group offshore from Cape Flattery, hosts a historic light station on the Makah Reservation, about 34 miles (55 km) north of La Push...
by CoastView | Jan 1, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Hutchins-1.mp3 Hutchins Bay is on the eastern shore of Glacier Bay, partially surrounding the Beardslee Islands in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 155 miles (249 km) southeast of...
by CoastView | Dec 30, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Metlakatla is a Tsimshian community situated on Port Chester, an embayment on the west coast of Annette Island, about 75 miles (121 km) northwest of Prince Rupert and 16 miles (26 km) south-southeast of Ketchikan, Alaska. Port Chester was named for Commander Colby M....
