by CoastView | Mar 16, 2025 | 2025, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Washington
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Friday-Harbor.mp3 Friday Harbor is a community at the head of a protected embayment on the eastern coast of San Juan Island, the archipelago’s second-largest and most populous island, about 18...
by CoastView | Mar 15, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Washington
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Ozette-Village.mp3 Ozette is a historical Makah village at Cape Alava, the Olympic Peninsula’s westernmost point, about 19 miles (31 km) north-northwest of La Push and 15 miles (24 km)...
by CoastView | Mar 14, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dakavak-Bay.mp3 Dakavak Bay is a 3.4-mile (5.5 km) wide inlet on the southeastern coast of the Alaska Peninsula in Katmai National Park and Preserve, that extends north from Shelikof Strait...
by CoastView | Mar 13, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Aialik-Glacier.mp3 Aialik Glacier flows southeast for 8 miles (13 km) from the Harding Icefield in the Kenai Mountains to tidewater at Aialik Bay in Kenai Fjords National Park, about 66 miles...
by CoastView | Mar 12, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Headlands, Historical, Lighthouses, Natural History, Parks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Table-Bluff-1.mp3 Table Bluff is a promontory and coastal plateau less than 1 mile (1.6 km) wide, with an elevation of 163 feet (50 m), at the base of South Spit, which encloses the southern...
by CoastView | Mar 11, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Hatcheries, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Burnett-Bay.mp3 Burnett Inlet is a narrow, estuarine fjord that extends about 9 miles (15 km) north from Clarence Strait into the southwest coast of Etolin Island, roughly 63 miles (101 km)...
by CoastView | Mar 10, 2025 | 2025, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Rivers
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Alice-Arm.mp3 Kitsault River drains a watershed of about 113,668 acres (46,000 ha), that includes the Kitsault Glacier and several smaller glaciers that flow out of the Cambria Icefield, and...
by CoastView | Mar 9, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Akutan.mp3 Akutan is a community on the northern shore of Akutan Harbor, on Akutan Island, one of the Krenitzin Islands in the Fox Islands group of the Eastern Aleutians, about 766 miles...
by CoastView | Mar 8, 2025 | 2025, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History, Parks, Shipwrecks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Valencia.mp3 Valencia Bluffs are sea cliffs along the West Coast Trail in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve on Vancouver Island’s southwest shore, about 29 miles (47 km) northwest of Port...
by CoastView | Mar 7, 2025 | 2025, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Washington
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Grapeview.mp3 Grapeview is a community comprising Allyn, Stretch Island, and Reach Island on the western shore at the head of Case Inlet in South Puget Sound, about 19 miles (31 km)...