by CoastView | Apr 19, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Afognak is the site of a historical village that was abandoned following the 1964 tsunami, situated at the head of Marmot Bay on the southeast coast of Afognak Island in the Kodiak Archipelago, about 122 miles (196 km) south-southwest of Homer and 20 miles (32 km)...
by CoastView | Apr 18, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Headlands, Historical, Oregon, Shipwrecks
Arch Cape is a small community at the mouth of Arch Cape Creek named after a natural sea arch in a basalt headland, about 25 miles (40 km) north-northwest of Tillamook and 6.5 miles (10 km) south of Cannon Beach, Oregon. Arch Cape Creek flows generally west for about...
by CoastView | Apr 6, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Best of 2022, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
Bear Cove is a small embayment on the Kenai Peninsula that extends southeast for 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the southeastern coast of Kachemak Bay between Bear Island to the south and Chugachik Island to the north, about 57 miles (92 km) south of Kenai and 18 miles (29...
by CoastView | Apr 5, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Dala-Kildala Rivers Estuaries Provincial Park is located at the head of Kildala Arm, a fjord that extends generally southeast for 10 miles (16 km) from Douglas Channel, about 81 miles (130 km) southeast of Prince Rupert, and 13 miles (21 km) south-southeast of...
by CoastView | Apr 4, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Shipwrecks
Nikiski Terminal Wharf is part of the Port of Nikiski petroleum facility in upper Cook Inlet on the west coast of the Kenai Peninsula at East Foreland, about 63 miles (101 km) southwest of Anchorage and 10 miles (16 km) north-northwest of Kenai, Alaska. East Foreland...
by CoastView | Apr 3, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Kadiak Fisheries operated a remote salmon cannery at Observation Point from 1926 until 1964 when it was destroyed by a tsunami, on the north shore of Shearwater Bay on Kodiak Island, about 36 miles (58 km) south-southwest of Kodiak and 18 miles (29 km) northeast of...
