by CoastView | Dec 30, 2021 | 2021, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks
Strawberry Hill is formed by a series of uplifted beach ridges on Point Bentinck at the eastern extremity of Hinchinbrook Island, at the southern entrance to Strawberry Channel that separates the island from the mainland, about 53 miles (85 km) south of Valdez and 17...
by CoastView | Dec 29, 2021 | 2021, Alaska, Best of 2021, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use
Ankau Saltchucks are a series of interconnected tidal lagoons forming a complex estuary about 1.2 miles (1.9 km) across on the northwestern end of the Phipps Peninsula at the entrance to Yakutat Bay and the west shore of Monti Bay, about 215 miles (346 km) southeast...
by CoastView | Dec 28, 2021 | 2021, Beaches, California, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Parks
Fort Cronkhite is a historical U.S. Army facility that supported Battery Townsley, part of the coastal artillery defenses of San Francisco Bay on the Marin Headlands during World War II and now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, about 8 miles (13 km)...
by CoastView | Dec 27, 2021 | 2021, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Nitrogen Cycle, Parks, Phosphorus, Rivers
Coghill River is in Chugach National Forest and flows southwest for 5 miles (8 km) from the terminus of Dartmouth Glacier to Coghill Lake, which is 4.7 miles (7.5 km) long, and then west-southwest for 3 miles (4.8 km) to College Fjord near Coghill Point, about 54...
by CoastView | Dec 26, 2021 | 2021, Beaches, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Oregon, Shipwrecks
Winema Beach is a strand adjacent to Winema Lake, originally the location of a townsite platted as Wi-Ne-Ma, near Oretown in southern Tillamook County, about 15 miles (24 km) north of Lincoln City and 4 miles (6 km) south of Pacific City, Oregon. The north coast of...
by CoastView | Dec 24, 2021 | 2021, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Natural History
Le Conte Glacier starts from the Stikine Icefield in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, at an elevation of about 8,500 feet (2,591 m) between Devils Thumb and Mount Gilroy, and flows generally south for 22 miles (35 km) to the head of Le Conte Bay in Southeast...