by CoastView | Jan 15, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Mines, Rivers, Washington
Slip Point is located on the southern shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, at the eastern end of Clallam Bay, on the Olympic Peninsula about 39 miles (63 km) west-northwest of Port Angeles and 0.7 miles (1 km) northeast of the community of Clallam Bay, Washington. The...
by CoastView | Jan 14, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Communities, Historical, Land Use, Rivers
Terrace is a community at the confluence of the Skeena and Kitsumkalum Rivers, about 71 miles (114 km) east-northeast of Prince Rupert and 64 miles (103 km) southwest of Hazelton, British Columbia. The community name comes from the terraces or benches rising up from...
by CoastView | Jan 13, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Parks
Old Sitka is the site of a historical Russian settlement called Redoubt Saint Archangel Michael on the southern shore of Starrigavan Bay in Sitka Sound on the west coast of Baranof Island, about 232 miles (373 km) southeast of Yakutat and 5.5 miles (9 km) north of...
by CoastView | Jan 12, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Parks
Scidmore Bay is enclosed by the Gilbert Peninsula to the east and the Fairweather Mountains to the west, and is situated within Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 119 miles (192 km) southeast of Yakutat and 43 miles (69 km) northwest of Gustavus, Alaska....
by CoastView | Jan 11, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Freshwater, Historical, Land Use, Parks
Lobos Creek is a stream in the Presidio of San Francisco that drains urban runoff and underground springs, and flows intermittently west for 1 mile (1.6 km) from near Mountain Lake to the Pacific Ocean between Baker Beach and China Beach, about 5 miles (8 km) west of...
by CoastView | Jan 10, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands
Mount Westdahl, also known as Westdahl Peak, is a relatively young glacier-capped volcano with a summit elevation of 5,118 feet (1,560 m), located at the southwest end of Unimak Island in the eastern Aleutian Islands, about 527 miles (848 km) southwest of Kodiak and...
