by CoastView | Jan 21, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Parks, Washington
Point Wilson is a low broad sand spit that extends northeast for 0.5 miles (0.8 km) from the northern end of the Quimper Peninsula on the grounds of former Fort Worden, into the Strait of Juan de Fuca at the southern entrance to Admiralty Inlet, about 31 miles (50 km)...
by CoastView | Jan 20, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines
Anyox is an abandoned mining community in the Coast Mountains at the mouth of Anyox Creek on Granby Bay in Observatory Inlet, about 79 miles (127 km) north-northeast of Prince Rupert and 37 miles (60 km) south of Stewart, British Columbia. The name Anyox means...
by CoastView | Jan 19, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, Waterfalls
Rookery Falls is located on the northern shore of Passage Canal in Prince William Sound, about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Anchorage and 1.7 miles (1.9 km) north-northeast of Whittier, Alaska. The waterfall is about 200 feet (61 m) high and drains a small lake...
by CoastView | Jan 18, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Rivers
Juneau is the Alaska state capital situated at the mouth of Gold Creek on Gastineau Channel, about 93 miles (150 km) northeast of Sitka and 87 miles (140 km) south-southeast of Skagway, Alaska. The community originated in 1880 as a mining camp called...
by CoastView | Jan 17, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
Jug Handle Cove is a California State Natural Preserve consisting of a series of ancient marine terraces called the Ecological Staircase at the mouth of Jug Handle Creek that exhibit different stages of ecological succession, about 5 miles (8 km) south of Fort Bragg...
by CoastView | Jan 16, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Freshwater, Glaciers, Historical
Yale Glacier is a massive tidewater glacier in College Fjord of Prince William Sound that starts at an elevation of 9,270 feet (2,826 m) between Mount Cardozo and Mount Einstein in the Chugach Mountains and flows generally southwest for 17 miles (27 km) to Yale Arm,...
