by CoastView | Feb 11, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Aialik Glacier flows southeast for about 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 (106 km) east-northeast of Homer and 16 miles (26 km) southwest of Seward, Alaska. The...
by CoastView | Feb 10, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History, Parks
Table Bluff is a promontory and coastal plateau less than 1 mile (1.6 km) wide with an elevation of 163 feet (50 m) located about 19 miles (31 km) north-northeast of Cape Mendocino at the base of South Spit that encloses the southern portion of Humboldt Bay, about 9...
by CoastView | Feb 9, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Hatcheries, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Burnett Inlet is a narrow estuarine fjord extending about 9 miles (15 km) north from Clarence Strait into the southwest coast of Etolin Island, about 63 miles (101 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 25 miles (40 km) south-southwest of Wrangell, Alaska. The inlet was named...
by CoastView | Feb 8, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks, Washington
Friday Harbor is a community at the head of a protected embayment on the eastern coast of San Juan Island, the second-largest island after Orcas Island and most populous in the San Juan archipelago, about 18 miles (29 km) northeast of Victoria and 18 miles (29 km)...
by CoastView | Feb 7, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Rivers
itsault River drains a watershed area of about 113,668 acres (46,000 ha), including the Kitsault Glacier that flows out of the Cambria Icefield and several smaller glaciers, and flows generally south for 23 miles (37 km) through the Coast Mountains to the head of...