by CoastView | May 2, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Natural History, Parks
Turner Glacier starts at an elevation of roughly 11,000 feet (3,353 m) on the eastern flank of Mount Cook in the Saint Elias Mountains and flows generally southeast for 21 miles (34 km) to Disenchantment Bay at the head of Yakutat Bay, about 214 miles (344 km)...
by CoastView | May 1, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History
Mary Island is the site of a historic lighthouse located between Felice Strait to the west and Revillagigedo Channel to the east, about 64 miles (103 km) north-northwest of Prince Rupert, British Columbia and 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Ketchikan, Alaska. Mary...
by CoastView | Apr 30, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Kipnuk is a Central Yup’ik village situated on a sharp bend of the Kuguklik River, 5 miles (8 km) upstream from the estuary in Kinak Bay on the Bering Sea, about 98 miles (158 km) southwest of Bethel and 18 miles (29 km) south-southeast of Chefornak, Alaska. The...
by CoastView | Apr 29, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Stardust Bay is situated on the southeast coast of Sedanka Island, which is separated from Unalaska Island by Udagak Strait to the west and Beaver Inlet to the north, about 780 miles (1258 km) southwest of Anchorage and 16 miles (26 km) southeast of Dutch Harbor,...
by CoastView | Apr 28, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Will Rogers-Wiley Post Memorial is at Walakpa Bay, a coastal inlet that extends 6 miles (10 km) east from the Chukchi Sea and is fed by a watershed of 56,487 acres (22,860 ha), about 76 miles (123 km) northeast of Wainwright and 11 miles (18 km) southwest of...
by CoastView | Apr 27, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History
Friendly Cove is an embayment on Nootka Island situated at the northern entrance to Nootka Sound, and is the site of a historic lighthouse and the Yuquot National Historic Site of Canada, about 72 miles (116 km) south-southeast of Port McNeill and 45 miles (72 km)...
by CoastView | Apr 26, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Marys Slough is a side channel about 5 miles (8 km) long at the mouth of the Unalakleet River formed by a barrier spit on Norton Sound that creates an extensive tidal wetland, about 46 miles (74 km) northeast of Saint Michael and 1.1 miles (1.8 km) south-southeast of...
by CoastView | Apr 25, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Cape Tanak is a headland on the north coast of Umnak Island in the Eastern Aleutian Islands between Cape Idak to the east and Ashishik Point to the west, about 64 miles (103 km) southwest of Dutch Harbor and 56 miles (90 km) northeast of Nikolski, Alaska. The name of...
by CoastView | Apr 24, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Glaciers, Land Use, Natural History
Mendenhall Glacier starts from an ice divide in the Juneau Icefield at an elevation of 4,300 feet (1,311 m) and flows generally southwest for 15 miles (24 km) to a proglacial lake between McGinnis Mountain to the west and Bullard Mountain to the east, about 11 miles...
by CoastView | Apr 23, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Sinuk River starts from a series of deglaciated cirques at an elevation of 1,890 feet (576 m) on the west flank of Tigaraha Mountain on the Seward Peninsula, and flows generally southwest for 44 miles (71 km), draining a watershed of 190,572 acres (77,122 ha), to the...
