by CoastView | Oct 29, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History
Port Protection is a community situated on Wooden Wheel Cove, at the northern tip of Prince of Wales Island in Tongass National Forest, about 140 miles (225 km) south-southwest of Juneau and 48 miles (77 km) west-northwest of Wrangell, Alaska. The community is named...
by CoastView | Oct 27, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Wainwright is an Iñupiat community on the Chukchi Sea coastline situated on a barrier beach adjacent to Wainwright Inlet and the Kuk River, about 94 miles (151 km) northeast of Point Lay and 86 miles (138 km) southwest of Utqiaġvik, Alaska. The inlet is also known as...
by CoastView | Oct 26, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Ninagiak Island is about 1.2 miles (2 km) long and 0.2 miles wide, located in Hallo Bay near the mouth of the Ninagiak River on the south coast of the Alaska Peninsula in Shelikof Strait, about 122 miles (197 km) southwest of Homer and 75 miles (121 km) northwest of...
by CoastView | Oct 25, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers, Washington
Lyre River starts at the outlet of Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park and flows generally northwest for 5 miles (8 km) to Low Point on the Strait of Juan de Fuca draining a watershed of 43,200 acres (17,482 ha), about 21 miles (34 km) southeast of Clallam Bay and...
by CoastView | Oct 22, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Village Islands is a group of six large islands and many smaller islets that extend for 1.7 miles (2.7 km) along the western shore of Uganik Bay on the northwestern coast of Kodiak Island, about 147 miles (237 km) southwest of Homer and 42 miles (68 km) due west of...
by CoastView | Oct 21, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Communities, Developments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Nikolski is a community located near the southwest end of Umnak Island, one of the Fox Islands in the eastern Aleutian Islands, about 910 miles (1,468 km) southwest of Anchorage and 116 miles (187 km) southwest of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Nikolski has an unlighted gravel...
