by CoastView | Jul 6, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Best of 2023, Biodiversity, California, Communities, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Salmon Creek starts at an elevation of 570 feet (174 m) and flows generally southwest for 19 miles (31 km) draining a watershed of 22,487 acres (9,100 ha) between the Northern Coast Ranges and the Pacific Ocean at Salmon Creek Beach in Sonoma Coast State Park, about...
by CoastView | Mar 8, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Best of 2023, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Old Chenega is a historical village at the head of Chenega Cove on the southern tip of Chenega Island in western Prince William Sound, which is part of the traditional territory of the Chugach Sugpiaq people, about 82 miles (132 km) west-southwest of Cordova and 40...
by CoastView | Mar 7, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Best of 2023, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use
Coal Point forms the tip of the Homer Spit in Kachemak Bay on the southern Kenai Peninsula, about 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Seldovia and 5.7 miles (9 km) southeast of Homer, Alaska. The name is a translation by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey of the Russian...
by CoastView | Feb 27, 2023 | 2023, Best of 2023, British Columbia, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Mines, Natural History
Island Copper was an open pit mine located at the northern end of Vancouver Island on Rupert Inlet at the head of Quatsino Sound, about 4.6 miles (7.4 km) east of Coal Harbour and 8.5 miles (14 km) south of Port Hardy, British Columbia. The mine extracted a...
by CoastView | Feb 24, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Best of 2023, California, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Shipwrecks
Tennessee Cove is an embayment with a sandy beach about 600 feet (180 m) long on the Pacific Ocean between Pirates Cove to the north and Rodeo Cove to the south in Golden Gate National Recreation Area about 10 miles (16 km) northwest of San Francisco and 3.6 miles...
by CoastView | Feb 23, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Best of 2023, Communities, Embayments, Islands, Land Use
Elfin Cove is an embayment that extends south from Cross Sound for 1 mile (1.6 km) and narrows to just over 100 feet (30 m) on the western shore of the Inian Peninsula at the northern end of Chichagof Island in Tongass National Forest, about 80 miles (129 km) west of...
