by CoastView | Jul 18, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Parks
Sisters Rocks, also known historically as Three Sisters Rocks, is a minor headland between Mussel Creek to the north and Eucher Creek to the south, at the site of the historical town of Frankport, about 13 miles (21 km) north of Gold Beach and 11 miles (18 km)...
by CoastView | Jul 17, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Natural History, Rivers
Travers Creek flows generally west-southwest for about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from an unnamed lake on the Kenai Peninsula to the confluence with Troublesome Creek and then another 0.5 miles (0.8 km) through Mutnaia Gulch to the north shore of Kachemak Bay, about 3.5 miles...
by CoastView | Jul 13, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Ten Mile River drains a watershed of about 76,800 acres (31,080 ha) and flows generally southwest for 7 miles (11 km) to the Pacific Ocean at the northern border of MacKerricher State Park, about 9 miles (15 km) north-northeast of the Noyo River at Fort Bragg and 5.7...
by CoastView | Jul 12, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers, Waterfalls
Cascade Falls descends to Cascade Bay, an estuary that extends northwest for 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from Eaglek Bay in the Chugach National Forest of northern Prince William Sound, about 52 miles (84 km) west-southwest of Valdez and 32 miles (51.5 km) east-northeast of...
by CoastView | Jul 10, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
MacDonald Spit is a sediment depositional feature, about 1 mile (1.6 km) long, caused by longshore drift from west to east which forms the northwestern shore of Kasitsna Bay on the southern coast of Kachemak Bay, about 11 miles (18 km) south of Homer and 5 miles (8...
by CoastView | Jul 8, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Alakanuk is a Yup’ik community surrounded by the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge and located at the eastern entrance of Alakanuk Pass, a major distributary channel of the Yukon River that leads generally west for 11 miles (18 km) to the Bering Sea, about...
