by CoastView | Feb 20, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Parks
Halibut Cove Lagoon is a semi-enclosed embayment about 0.7 miles (1 km) wide at the head of Halibut Cove on the southeast shore of Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, about 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Seldovia and 13 miles (21 km) southeast of Homer, Alaska. The...
by CoastView | Feb 19, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Cormorant Point is a headland located between Cordova Bay and Margaret Bay, in the Gordon Head neighborhood of Saanich, about 11 miles (18 km) south-southeast of Sidney and 5.5 miles (8.9 km) north-northeast of Victoria, British Columbia. Gordon Head is named after...
by CoastView | Feb 18, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Rivers
Auke Creek Research Station is situated on the west coast of the Mendenhall Peninsula and at the head of Auke Bay, which is about 3 miles (5 km) across at the northern end of Stephens Passage, about 66 miles (106 km) south-southeast of Haines and 10 miles (16 km)...
by CoastView | Feb 17, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Trident Seafoods operates a processing facility near Akutan Village on Akutan Island, one of the Krenitzen Islands in the Fox Island group of the Eastern Aleutians, about 750 miles (1210 km) southwest of Anchorage and 36 miles (58 km) northeast of Dutch Harbor,...
by CoastView | Feb 16, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Developments, Freshwater, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Oso Flaco Creek drains a watershed of approximately 7,400 acres (2,995 ha) consisting mostly of agricultural land before forming Oso Flaco Lake, now part of the Oso Flaco Lake Natural Area in the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes, and then flows into the Pacific Ocean, and about...
by CoastView | Feb 15, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Kachemak, Natural History
Contact Point is a headland forming the southern shore of Bruin Bay on the western side of Cook Inlet, about 123 miles (198 km) northwest of Kodiak and 93 miles (150 km) west-southwest of Homer, Alaska. It was named in 1926 by George C. Martin of the U.S. Geological...
