by CoastView | Feb 23, 2026 | 2026, Beaches, Best of 2023, California, Embayments, February 2026, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Shipwrecks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/TennesseeCove-1.mp3 Tennessee Cove is an embayment with a sandy beach roughly 600 feet (180 m) long on the Pacific Ocean, between Pirates Cove to the north and Rodeo Cove to the south, in the...
by CoastView | Feb 22, 2026 | 2026, Alaska, Best of 2023, Communities, Embayments, Islands, Land Use
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ElfinCove.mp3 Elfin Cove is an embayment extending south from Cross Sound for 1 mile (1.6 km), narrowing to just over 100 feet (30 m) on the western shore of the Inian Peninsula at Chichagof...
by CoastView | Dec 3, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Best of 2023, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Rolph, or Ralph Slough is a tidal creek in an area of grass meadows and numerous unnamed sloughs that cut through vast mud flats on the left bank near the mouth of the Nushagak River at Nushagak Point, about 55 miles (89 km) west-northwest of Naknek and 6 miles (10...
by CoastView | Nov 16, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Best of 2023, Coastal Features, Parks
A sealing observation tower used seasonally by Iñupiat hunters is at the tip of Cape Krusenstern, about 48 miles (77 km) southeast of Kivalina and 35 miles (56 km) northwest of Kotzebue, Alaska. Observation towers are used for locating open water where seals...
by CoastView | Nov 15, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Best of 2023, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Kustatan is a historical Dena’ina community on West Foreland, on the west side of Cook Inlet near the mouth of the Kustatan River, about 71 miles (115 km) southwest of Anchorage and 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Kenai, Alaska. The last syllable ‘tan’...
by CoastView | Nov 14, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Best of 2023, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Mekoryuk is a community situated at the western entrance to Shoal Bay on the northern shore of Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea, about 153 miles (246 km) west-southwest of Bethel and 80 miles (129 km) south of Hooper Bay, Alaska. Mekoryuk is the only community on the...
