by CoastView | Jan 31, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
South Ledge is a navigational hazard in Wrangell Narrows, a water passage separating Mitkof Island to the east and Kupreanof and Woewodski Islands to the west that extends generally south for about 22 miles (35 km) from Frederick Sound near Petersburg at the north end...
by CoastView | Jan 30, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Selawik River is about 140 miles (226 km) long, originating in the Purcell Mountains near the Zane Hills, and flows generally west through the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge to Selawik Lake, about 65 miles (105 km) southeast of Kotzebue and 9 miles (14.5 km) west of...
by CoastView | Jan 29, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, California, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
Rincon Creek is a stream that starts in the Santa Ynez Mountains near Divide Peak at an elevation of 4,800 feet (1,463 m) and flows generally south for 10 miles (16 km) to the Pacific Ocean at Rincon Point draining a watershed of 9,352 acres (3,785 ha), about 12 miles...
by CoastView | Jan 28, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use
The Dirty Glacier flows generally north for about 1.7 miles (2.7 km) from an elevation of 3,800 feet (1,158 m) in the Chugach Mountains of western Prince William Sound to its terminus at an outwash plain about 1 mile (1.6 km) from the head of Harriman Fjord, about 71...
by CoastView | Jan 27, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Best of 2022, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Washington
Kalaloch is a resort area and ranger station on the west coast of the Olympic Peninsula at the mouth of Kalaloch Creek in Olympic National Park, about 24 miles (39 km) southeast of La Push and 19 miles (31 km) north-northwest of Taholah, Washington. The sandy beach at...
