by CoastView | Oct 21, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Communities, Developments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Nikolski is a community located near the southwest end of Umnak Island, one of the Fox Islands in the eastern Aleutian Islands, about 910 miles (1,468 km) southwest of Anchorage and 116 miles (187 km) southwest of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Nikolski has an unlighted gravel...
by CoastView | Oct 20, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Canneries, Communities, Historical, Natural History, Rivers
Klamath River flows for 257 miles (415 km) from a broad patchwork of lakes and marshes at the edge of the Oregon high desert, through the Cascade Range and the Klamath Mountains, and enters the Pacific Ocean at the community of Requa, about 52 miles (84 km) north of...
by CoastView | Oct 19, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Tigara Peninsula is a prominent point of land extending west for 13 miles (21 km) from the mouth of the Kukpuk River on the Cape Lisburne peninsula into the Chukchi Sea, about 320 miles (516 km) southwest of Utqiaġvik and 151 miles (244 km) northwest of Kotzebue,...
by CoastView | Oct 19, 2023 | 2023, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Washington
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard is a U.S Navy facility on 179 acres (72.4 ha) on the north shore of Sinclair Inlet at Bremerton, about 23 miles (37 km) northwest of Tacoma and 15 miles (24 km) west of Seattle, Washington. It is the Pacific Northwest’s largest naval...
by CoastView | Oct 18, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Natural History
Gull Rock is a point of land on the south shore of Turnagain Arm on the Kenai Peninsula, about 18 miles (29 km) south-southeast of Anchorage and 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Hope, Alaska. The name was first published in 1943 by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey....
by CoastView | Oct 18, 2023 | 2023, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Fulford Harbour is an embayment and a small community on the southeast coast of Salt Spring Island, about 39 miles (63 km) southwest of Vancouver and 9 miles (14.5 km) north-northwest of Sidney, British Columbia. Fulford Harbour is a BC Ferries terminal with regular...
