by CoastView | Sep 20, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Kachemak
Mariner Lagoon is situated at the base of the Homer Spit, about 1 mile (1.6 km) southeast of the community of Homer, Alaska. The lagoon was formed when Coal Bay was bisected by a road causeway in the 1940s to provide more reliable access to a deepwater harbor at the...
by CoastView | Sep 19, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Communities, Islands
Kitkatla is a small Tsimshian village on the north coast of Dolphin Island approximately 28 miles (45 km) southwest of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. It is also called Lach Klan or Laxklan by the Tsimshian. The village is home to the Gitxaała First Nation government...
by CoastView | Sep 18, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Embayments, Islands
Seal Island is forested and uninhabited, about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) across, and located in Prince William Sound, about 7 miles (11 km) east of Knight Island, and 58 miles (93 km) west-southwest of Cordova, Alaska. The name was first published in 1899 by the U.S. Coast...
by CoastView | Sep 17, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Headlands
Point Woronzof is a headland in Cook Inlet on the south coast of Knik Arm, 4 miles (6.5 km) west of downtown Anchorage, Alaska. The point was named after the Russian diplomat Semyon Vorontsov, by Lieutenant Joseph Whidbey of the Royal Navy who was a member of Captain...
by CoastView | Sep 15, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Land Use
Point Spencer is the north end of a spit about 19 miles (31 km) long, between the Bering Sea and Port Clarence, on the Seward Peninsula, about 14 miles (23 km) west of Teller, Alaska. The point was named in 1827 by Captain Frederick W. Beechey for Captain Robert...
by CoastView | Sep 14, 2022 | 2022, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Rivers
Ophir is a small community on Euchre Creek in Curry County, about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) upstream from the Pacific Ocean, and 4 miles (6.5 km) northeast of the community of Nesika Beach, Oregon. Nesika Beach is also a strand about 6 miles (10 km) long between the...
