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....
by CoastView | Dec 27, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Hatcheries, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Rivers
Loring is a small community at the site of a historical salmon cannery on the west coast of Revillagigedo Island, at the head of Naha Bay and near the mouth of the Naha River, about 66 miles (106 km) south-southeast of Wrangell and 17 miles (27 km) north of Ketchikan,...
by CoastView | Dec 24, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Parks, Washington
Turn Point is a headland with a historic light station on the northwest coast of Stuart Island overlooking Haro Strait to the west and Boundary Pass to the north, located on property that is part of the San Juan Islands National Monument, about 34 miles (55 km) west...
