by CoastView | Aug 20, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Mount Edgecumbe is a dormant volcano with an elevation of 3,201 feet (976 m) on the southern coast of Kruzof Island, about 100 miles (161 km) southwest of Juneau and 16 miles (26 km) west of Sitka, Alaska. In 1775, the volcano was named Montana de San Jacinto by Don...
by CoastView | Aug 19, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
Jackass Creek starts from an elevation of about 1,400 feet (427 m) on the western flank of Jackass Ridge and flows generally west for 2.5 miles (4 km) to the Pacific Ocean draining a watershed of about 3,458 acres (1,400 ha), about 18 miles (30 km) north-northwest of...
by CoastView | Aug 18, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Chip Cove is an embayment between Luchek Mountain to the south and Peak 2001 to the north, and the site of a historical salmon cannery on the western shore of Moser Bay near Olga Narrows on the southwestern coast of Kodiak Island, about 83 miles (131 km) southwest of...
by CoastView | Aug 8, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers, Washington
Wa’atch River starts at an elevation of about 1,480 feet (451 m) on the eastern flank of Makah Peaks and flows generally north for 5 miles (8 km) through the Makah Indian Reservation on the Olympic Peninsula to the confluence of Educket Creek and then generally...
by CoastView | Aug 7, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Mallard Bay dries at low tide to expose a mudflat situated southwest and adjacent to the mouth of Portlock River on the southern shore of Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, about 14 miles (23 km) east-northeast of Homer and 4 miles (6 km) south-southwest of Bear...
by CoastView | Aug 6, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Gingolx is one of four Nisga’a villages that make up the Nisga’a First Nation and is situated at the confluence of the Kincolith River and the Nass River on the northern shore of Nass Bay, about 70 miles (113 km) east-southeast of Ketchikan and 50 miles...
