by CoastView | Feb 8, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks, Washington
Friday Harbor is a community at the head of a protected embayment on the eastern coast of San Juan Island, the second-largest island after Orcas Island and most populous in the San Juan archipelago, about 18 miles (29 km) northeast of Victoria and 18 miles (29 km)...
by CoastView | Feb 7, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Rivers
itsault River drains a watershed area of about 113,668 acres (46,000 ha), including the Kitsault Glacier that flows out of the Cambria Icefield and several smaller glaciers, and flows generally south for 23 miles (37 km) through the Coast Mountains to the head of...
by CoastView | Feb 6, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Akutan is a community situated on the northern shore of Akutan Harbor on Akutan Island, one of the Krenitzin Islands in the Fox Islands group of the Eastern Aleutians, about 766 miles (1,233 km) southwest of Anchorage and 35 miles (56 km) east of Unalaska, Alaska. The...
by CoastView | Feb 5, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Cape Newenham is a massive headland on the eastern shore of the Bering Sea between Kuskokwim Bay to the north and Togiak Bay to the south, about 149 miles (240 km) south of Bethel and 69 miles (111 km) southwest of Togiak, Alaska. The south side of the promontory...
by CoastView | Feb 4, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, California, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Point Lobos is a rocky headland at the south end of Carmel Bay between Cypress Cove to the north and Headland Cove to the south on the central coast of California, about 19 miles (31 km) north-northwest of Big Sur and 2.5 miles (4 km) southwest of Carmel, California....
by CoastView | Feb 3, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Best of 2022, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
Fortification Bluff is a sea cliff over 3 miles (4.8 km) long that rises almost vertically to 1,200 feet (366 m), on the south face of Step Mountain in Kamishak Bay, about 125 miles (201 km) northwest of Kodiak and 82 miles (132 km) west-southwest of Homer, Alaska....
