by CoastView | Aug 11, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Best of 2020, Embayments, Glaciers, Waterfalls
An unnamed glacier hangs above a cirque on the southern shore of Endicott Arm, a fjord in the Coast Mountains of Southeast Alaska that extends northwest for 33 miles (53 km) from the terminus of the Dawes Glacier to Holkham Bay, 80 miles (129 km) southeast of Juneau...
by CoastView | Aug 3, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Parks, Waterfalls
Mount Douglas is a stratovolcano with an elevation of 7,000 feet (2,134 m) located on Kamishak Bay, near the northern part of the Alaska Peninsula and within Katmai National Park and Preserve, about 113 miles (182 km) east of King Salmon and 91 miles (147 km)...
by CoastView | Jun 28, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Natural History, Parks, Waterfalls
Kashteen Peninsula is located in Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve on the eastern shore of Icy Bay, between Tsaa Fjord to the south and Guyot Fjord to the north, and is emerging from under the retreating Guyot Glacier, about 149 miles (240 km)...
by CoastView | Jun 26, 2023 | 2023, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Embayments, Islands, Natural History, Waterfalls
Salt Lagoon is situated at the southwestern base of the Spiller Range on Porcher Island and is connected by a tidal channel 1.8 miles (2.9 km) long to Porcher Inlet that extends 11 miles (81 km) from the south and nearly bisects the island, about 15 miles (24 km)...
by CoastView | May 9, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Waterfalls
Tutka Bay is a deglaciated fjord that extends 8.5 miles (14 km) in Kachemak Bay State Park from Eldred Passage to the mouth of an unnamed river that flows generally west-northwest for 7 miles (11 km) from small remnants of the Southern Glacier, about 18 miles (29 km)...
by CoastView | Oct 28, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers, Waterfalls
Sahlin Falls is at the base of Sahlin Creek that starts from a cirque glacier at an elevation of about 2,800 feet (850 m) and cascades south for 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to Sahlin Lake at an elevation of 720 feet (219 m), and then southeast for 1.2 miles (2 km) to the...
