by CoastView | Jan 25, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Shipwrecks
Ancon Rock is a reef about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) off Point Gustavus on the eastern shore and at the entrance to Glacier Bay, in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 55 miles (89 km) west of Juneau and 8.5 miles (12 km) southwest of Gustavus, Alaska. The reef is...
by CoastView | Jan 24, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Kachemak, Land Use, Parks
Barren Islands are the northernmost of the Kodiak Archipelago, located near Lower Cook Inlet between Stevenson Entrance to the south and Kennedy Entrance to the north, about 80 miles (129 km) north of Kodiak and 56 miles (90 km) southwest of Homer, Alaska. Lower Cook...
by CoastView | Jan 21, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Parks, Washington
Point Wilson is a low broad sand spit that extends northeast for 0.5 miles (0.8 km) from the northern end of the Quimper Peninsula on the grounds of former Fort Worden, into the Strait of Juan de Fuca at the southern entrance to Admiralty Inlet, about 31 miles (50 km)...
by CoastView | Jan 17, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
Jug Handle Cove is a California State Natural Preserve consisting of a series of ancient marine terraces called the Ecological Staircase at the mouth of Jug Handle Creek that exhibit different stages of ecological succession, about 5 miles (8 km) south of Fort Bragg...
by CoastView | Jan 13, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Parks
Old Sitka is the site of a historical Russian settlement called Redoubt Saint Archangel Michael on the southern shore of Starrigavan Bay in Sitka Sound on the west coast of Baranof Island, about 232 miles (373 km) southeast of Yakutat and 5.5 miles (9 km) north of...
by CoastView | Jan 12, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Parks
Scidmore Bay is enclosed by the Gilbert Peninsula to the east and the Fairweather Mountains to the west, and is situated within Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 119 miles (192 km) southeast of Yakutat and 43 miles (69 km) northwest of Gustavus, Alaska....
