by CoastView | Jan 12, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, January 2025, Natural History
Le Conte Glacier starts from the Stikine Icefield in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, at an elevation of about 8,500 feet (2,591 m) between Devils Thumb and Mount Gilroy, and flows generally south for 22 miles (35 km) to Southeast Alaska at the head of Le...
by CoastView | Dec 31, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, December 2024, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Parks
South Beach is a state park south of the jetty protecting the mouth of Yaquina Bay and extending for 1 mile (1.6 km) along the Pacific coast, about 12 miles (19 km) north of Waldport and 2 miles (3.2 km) south-southwest of Newport, Oregon. The beach continues south...
by CoastView | Dec 21, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, December 2024, Developments, Embayments, Freshwater, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Thorne Bay is a small community, and an estuary of the Thorne River on the eastern coast of Prince of Wales Island, the largest of approximately 1,100 islands interspersed by marine channels in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 55 miles (89 km)...
by CoastView | Dec 12, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, December 2024, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
King Island is about 1.7 miles (2.7 km) long and 1.4 miles (2.3 km) wide with steep rocky cliffs on all sides and a summit elevation of about 1,050 feet (320 m), located in the northern Bering Sea, about 86 miles (139 km) northwest of Nome, and 44 miles (71 km) south...
by CoastView | Dec 8, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, December 2024, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Waterfalls
Port Walter is a fjord 3.7 miles (6 km) long that opens into Chatham Strait on the southeast coast of Baranof Island, about 91 miles (146 km) west of Wrangell and 51 miles (82 km) south-southeast of Sitka, Alaska. The fjord includes a small embayment near the entrance...
by CoastView | Nov 29, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Freshwater, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, November 2024, Parks, Rivers
Thoms Place is an embayment, and a widely distributed remote community, along Zimovia Strait on the southwest coast of Wrangell Island, about 62 miles (100 km) north-northwest of Ketchikan and 22 miles (35 km) south-southeast of Wrangell, Alaska. Zimovia Strait is a...
