by CoastView | Aug 26, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses
The Santa Barbara Lighthouse is located between the East Mesa and West Mesa neighborhoods, about 2 miles (3 km) west of the Santa Barbara Harbor, in the City of Santa Barbara, California. The light was established on December 1, 1856. The site was selected by the U.S....
by CoastView | Aug 25, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Natural History
Barry Glacier flows southwest for 16 miles (25 km) to Barry Arm of Harriman Fjord in northwestern Prince William Sound, about 33 miles (53 km) northeast of Whittier and 58 miles (93 km) east of Anchorage, Alaska. Barry Arm is a fjord that extends south for 10 miles...
by CoastView | Aug 24, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Coastal Features, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers, Washington
The Raft River is a stream located entirely within the Quinault Indian Reservation on the Olympic Peninsula and flows into the Pacific Ocean at Tunnel Island, about 9 miles (15 km) north of Taholah, Washington. Tunnel Island is named for a sea cave that runs through...
by CoastView | Aug 23, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Anchor River is on the Kenai Peninsula and flows west for about 30 miles (48 km) from Bald Mountain to a lagoon at Anchor Point on the eastern shore of Cook Inlet, at the northern edge of Kachemak Bay, about 14 miles (23 km) northwest of Homer, Alaska. The middle...
by CoastView | Aug 22, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Humpback Bay is an embayment on the north coast of Porcher Island off Malacca Passage, about 15 miles (24 km) south of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. The bay is the site of a community named Porcher and the now derelict Porcher Island Cannery near the mouth of Back...
by CoastView | Aug 21, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Delight Creek flows generally southwest for 2 miles (3.2 km) from Delight Lake to the entrance of McCarty Lagoon, an embayment about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) wide and 2 miles (3.2 km) long on the eastern shore of McCarty Fjord, on the outer coast of the Kenai Peninsula in...
