by CoastView | Jan 16, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Best of 2021, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, January 2025, Land Use
Ankau Saltchucks are a series of interconnected tidal lagoons forming a complex estuary about 1.2 miles (1.9 km) across on the northwestern end of the Phipps Peninsula at the entrance to Yakutat Bay and the west shore of Monti Bay, about 215 miles (346 km) southeast...
by CoastView | Jan 10, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Best of 2021, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, January 2025, Land Use
Port Moller is a small community clustered around a historic salmon cannery located on Moller Bay, an embayment on the Bering Sea coast of the Alaska Peninsula near the western margin of Bristol Bay, about 93 miles (150 km) northeast of King Cove and 87 miles (140 km)...
by CoastView | Nov 2, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Best of 2021, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Mines, November 2024, Parks, Washington
Point of Arches and the adjacent Shi Shi Beach represent a unique wilderness shoreline located at the western edge of the Olympic National Park, about 24 miles (39 km) north of La Push and 9 miles (15 km) south-southwest of Neah Bay, Washington. The archaeological...
by CoastView | Sep 5, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Best of 2021, California, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Rivers
Soquel Creek runs through Capitola, a community adjacent to Santa Cruz on the north coast of Monterey Bay, about 75 miles (120 km) south of San Francisco and 26 miles (42 km) north of Monterey, California. Soquel Creek has a drainage area of about 25,600 acres (10,360...
by CoastView | Aug 21, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Best of 2021, Chemical Pollution, Communities, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use
Tin City is a historical mining community on Cape Prince of Wales, located at the mouth of Cape Creek and adjacent to Cape Mountain on the Seward Peninsula, about 103 miles (166 km) northwest of Nome and 6 miles (10 km) southeast of Wales, Alaska. Cape Prince of Wales...
by CoastView | Aug 15, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Best of 2021, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Oregon, Parks, Rivers
Cape Kiwanda is a sandstone headland with an elevation of 240 feet (73 m), protected by a basalt island known as Haystack Rock lying 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the southwest, about 18 miles (29 km) south-southwest of Tillamook and 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of Pacific City,...
