by CoastView | Sep 7, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers, Washington
Taholah is a community located at the mouth of the Quinault River on lands of the Quinault Nation, about 9 miles (14 km) north of Moclips and 41 miles (66 km) north of Hoquiam on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington. The Quinault are a southwestern Coastal Salish people...
by CoastView | Sep 6, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Aurora Lagoon is on the southern shore of Kachemak Bay, on the Kenai Peninsula, about 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Homer, Alaska. The shallow lagoon dries at low tide exposing a mudflat about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) across and backed by spruce and birch-covered slopes....
by CoastView | Sep 5, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Malachan is a Ditidaht community of the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nation located at the head of Nitinat Lake on the west coast of Vancouver Island, 37 miles (60 km) southeast of Bamfield, and 93 miles (150 km) northwest by road from Victoria, British Columbia. The name...
by CoastView | Sep 4, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines
Copper City is an abandoned mining community on the eastern shore of Hetta Inlet, on the southwest coast of Prince of Wales Island, 5.5 miles (9 km) north of Lime Point, and 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Hydaburg, Alaska. The local name was first reported in 1905 by...
by CoastView | Sep 3, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Cape Cleare is a headland on the southwest end of Montague Island, at the entrance to Montague Strait that leads to Prince William Sound, about 60 miles (97 km) southeast of Seward, Alaska. The cape was named by Captain Nathaniel Portlock in 1787. In 1791, Captain...
by CoastView | Sep 2, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
The Mattole River flows for about 62 miles (100 km) through the King Range to the Mattole Estuary and then into the Pacific Ocean at the Punta Gorda State Marine Reserve about 10 miles (16 km) south of Cape Mendocino and 4 miles (6.4 km) west-southwest of the...
