by CoastView | Jun 6, 2022 | 2022, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Rivers, Washington
Fort Columbia is a historical military facility situated on Chinook Paint, that defended the entrance to the Columbia River from 1896 to 1947 and is now a state park, about 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Ilwaco and 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Astoria, Oregon. Chinook...
by CoastView | Jun 5, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
San Juan Cove is a small embayment on the north shore of Tutka Bay, a deglaciated fjord on the southern shore of Kachemak Bay in the Kenai Mountains in Kachemak Bay State Park, about 13 miles (21 km) south-southeast of Homer and 11 miles (18 km) east-northeast of...
by CoastView | Jun 4, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Crab River enters Devastation Channel near the entrance to Alan Reach of Gardner Canal, about 81 miles (130 km) southeast of Prince Rupert and 28 miles (45 km) south-southwest of Kitamaat, British Columbia. Devastation Channel lies between Hawkesbury Island and the...
by CoastView | Jun 3, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Samalga Island is 4 miles (6 km) long and 0.5 miles (0.8 km) wide, flat and entirely covered with grass, and situated in the Fox Island group of the eastern Aleutian Islands between Umnak Island to the east and Islands of Four Mountains to the west, about 317 miles...
by CoastView | Jun 2, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Natural History
Meares Glacier starts at an elevation of about 7200 feet (2195 m) in the Chugach Mountains between Mount Michelson to the north and Columbia Peak to the south and trends generally southwest for 16 miles (26 km) to Unakwik Inlet in Prince William Sound, about 47 miles...
by CoastView | Jun 1, 2022 | 2022, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Devil’s Slide is on the western flank of San Pedro and Montara Mountains in the San Pedro Headlands, along 2.5 miles (4 km) between San Pedro Creek to the north and Martini Creek to the south, characterized by impressively steep slopes with gradients ranging...
