by CoastView | Aug 6, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Islands
Stockdale Harbor is on the northwest coast of Montague Island in Prince William Sound, about 62 miles (100 km) southeast of Whittier and 54 miles (87 km) southwest of Cordova, Alaska. In 1776, Nathaniel Portlock joined HMS Discovery as master’s mate under the...
by CoastView | Aug 5, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Canneries, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Freshwater, Glaciers, Historical, Rivers
Situk River starts at Situk Lake and flows southwest for about 18 miles (29 km) through the Yakutat Forelands in Tongass National Forest to Johnson Slough on the Gulf of Alaska, about 200 miles (322 km) northwest of Juneau and 9 miles (15 km) southeast of Yakutat,...
by CoastView | Aug 2, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Chemical Pollution, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Shipwrecks
Ocean Bay is on the southeast shore of Sitkalidak Island in the Kodiak Archipelago, about 56 miles (90 km) southwest of Kodiak and 9 miles (15 km) southeast of the village of Old Harbor, Alaska. The Kodiak Archipelago is in the western Gulf of Alaska and has about 32...
by CoastView | Jul 28, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Historical, Land Use, Oregon, Rivers, Shipwrecks
Camp Castaway is a historical site on North Spit of Coos Bay, a sandy, vegetated peninsula separating the estuary of the Coos River from the Pacific Ocean, about 3.8 miles (6 km) west of North Bend and 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Charleston, Oregon. The spit was the site...
by CoastView | Jul 22, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Shipwrecks
The remains of SS Islander and the salvage barge Griffson are in Green Cove on Stephens Passage, a waterway that separates the north shore of the Glass Peninsula on Admiralty Island from Douglas Island, about 86 miles (138 km) northeast of Sitka and 12 miles (19 km)...
by CoastView | Jul 21, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Oregon, Parks
Cape Lookout is a narrow basalt headland about 2 miles (3.2 km) long with vertical sea cliffs 800 feet (244 m) high in Cape Lookout State Park and the Siuslaw National Forest, about 26 miles (42 km) north of Lincoln City and 11 miles (18 km) southwest of Tillamook,...
