by CoastView | Jun 24, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Fish Creek drains an area of about 1.1 million acres (460,000 ha), entirely with the zone of continuous permafrost, and flows generally northeast for about 110 miles (177 km) through the Arctic Coastal Plain in the National Petroleum Reserve to Harrison Bay at the...
by CoastView | Jun 23, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Natural History
Swanberg Dredge is a placer mining machine that extracts gold from sand and gravel and is located in a small artificial pond at Rocker Gulch, about 200 feet (61 m) north of the Nome-Council Highway on the Seward Peninsula, about 18 miles (29 km) west of Safety and 1...
by CoastView | Jun 22, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers, Waterfalls
Alamere Falls is located about 0.4 miles (0.6 km) north of Double Point where Alamere Creek cascades 40 feet (12 m) over a sea cliff, directly into the ocean at high tides and otherwise onto Wildcat Beach in the Phillip Burton Wilderness of Point Reyes National...
by CoastView | Jun 21, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Fossil Point is a prominent landmark in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve on the southern shore of Tuxedni Bay, at the north end of Tuxedni Channel and west of Chisik Island, about 56 miles (90 km) southwest of Kenai and 54 miles (87 km) northwest of Homer,...
by CoastView | Jun 20, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History, Parks, Washington
Point No Point is a sand spit on the northern end of the Kitsap Peninsula, between Norwegian Point to the northwest and Pilot Point to the southeast, near the southern end of Admiralty Inlet that connects the Salish Sea with Puget Sound, about 8 miles (13 km) north of...
by CoastView | Jun 19, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
Mud Bay is a tidal flat about 0.6 miles (1 km) wide, partially enclosed by sand spits and situated at the sheltered base of the Homer Spit on the northwest shore of Kachemak Bay, about 2.7 miles (4 km) southwest of Millers Landing and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southeast of...
