by CoastView | May 4, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Cape Pankof is a point of land situated at the eastern tip of the lkatan Peninsula on Unimak Island and the site of the shipwrecked SS Oduna, about 148 miles (239 km) northeast of Dutch Harbor and 18 miles (29 km) southeast of False Pass, Alaska. Unimak Island is...
by CoastView | May 3, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Embayments, Kachemak, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
McKeon Flats is formed by the Wosnesenski River that flows into Neptune Bay on the south shore of Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, about 14 miles (23 km) northeast of Seldovia and 9 miles (14.5 km) southeast of Homer, Alaska. McKeon Flats was first published on...
by CoastView | May 2, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Communities, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Rivers, Shipwrecks
Siuslaw River starts at an elevation of 636 feet (194 m) in the Coast Range and flows generally west-northwest for 110 miles (177 km) to the Pacific Ocean at Florence, draining a watershed of 494,720 acres (200,206 ha), about 53 miles (85 km) west of Eugene and 43...
by CoastView | May 1, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Biodiversity, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Corea Creek drains a fen at an elevation of 200 feet (60 m) on the Kenai Peninsula and flows generally southwest for 2.4 miles (4 km) to the eastern shore of Cook Inlet and the site of a historic shipwreck, about 37 miles (60 km) north of Homer and 5 miles (8 km)...
by CoastView | Apr 30, 2023 | 2023, British Columbia, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Lax Kw’alaams is a Tsimshian community on Port Simpson, an embayment on the eastern coast of Chatham Sound between Flewin Point to the north and Finlayson Island to the south, about 76 miles (123 km) southeast of Ketchikan, and 18 miles (29 km) north-northwest...
by CoastView | Apr 29, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Communities, Developments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Savoonga is a Siberian Yupik community situated on the north flank of the Kookooligit Mountains at Savoonga Point on the north coast of Saint Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, about 164 miles (265 km) southwest of Nome and 39 miles (63 km) east of Gambell, Alaska....
