by CoastView | Feb 2, 2022 | 2022, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Washington
Grapeview is a community that includes Allyn, Stretch Island, and Reach Island located on the western shore at the head of Case Inlet in South Puget Sound, about 19 miles (31 km) west-northwest of Tacoma and 16 miles (26 km) northeast of Shelton, Washington. Grapeview...
by CoastView | Feb 1, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History, Parks, Shipwrecks
Valencia Bluffs are sea cliffs along the West Coast Trail in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve on the southwest shore of Vancouver Island, about 29 miles (47 km) northwest of Port Renfrew and 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Bamfield, British Columbia. The bluffs were...
by CoastView | Jan 31, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
South Ledge is a navigational hazard in Wrangell Narrows, a water passage separating Mitkof Island to the east and Kupreanof and Woewodski Islands to the west that extends generally south for about 22 miles (35 km) from Frederick Sound near Petersburg at the north end...
by CoastView | Jan 30, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Selawik River is about 140 miles (226 km) long, originating in the Purcell Mountains near the Zane Hills, and flows generally west through the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge to Selawik Lake, about 65 miles (105 km) southeast of Kotzebue and 9 miles (14.5 km) west of...
by CoastView | Jan 29, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, California, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
Rincon Creek is a stream that starts in the Santa Ynez Mountains near Divide Peak at an elevation of 4,800 feet (1,463 m) and flows generally south for 10 miles (16 km) to the Pacific Ocean at Rincon Point draining a watershed of 9,352 acres (3,785 ha), about 12 miles...
by CoastView | Jan 28, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use
The Dirty Glacier flows generally north for about 1.7 miles (2.7 km) from an elevation of 3,800 feet (1,158 m) in the Chugach Mountains of western Prince William Sound to its terminus at an outwash plain about 1 mile (1.6 km) from the head of Harriman Fjord, about 71...
