by CoastView | Feb 9, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Hatcheries, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Burnett Inlet is a narrow estuarine fjord extending about 9 miles (15 km) north from Clarence Strait into the southwest coast of Etolin Island, about 63 miles (101 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 25 miles (40 km) south-southwest of Wrangell, Alaska. The inlet was named...
by CoastView | Feb 8, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks, Washington
Friday Harbor is a community at the head of a protected embayment on the eastern coast of San Juan Island, the second-largest island after Orcas Island and most populous in the San Juan archipelago, about 18 miles (29 km) northeast of Victoria and 18 miles (29 km)...
by CoastView | Feb 7, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Rivers
itsault River drains a watershed area of about 113,668 acres (46,000 ha), including the Kitsault Glacier that flows out of the Cambria Icefield and several smaller glaciers, and flows generally south for 23 miles (37 km) through the Coast Mountains to the head of...
by CoastView | Feb 6, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Akutan is a community situated on the northern shore of Akutan Harbor on Akutan Island, one of the Krenitzin Islands in the Fox Islands group of the Eastern Aleutians, about 766 miles (1,233 km) southwest of Anchorage and 35 miles (56 km) east of Unalaska, Alaska. The...
by CoastView | Feb 5, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Cape Newenham is a massive headland on the eastern shore of the Bering Sea between Kuskokwim Bay to the north and Togiak Bay to the south, about 149 miles (240 km) south of Bethel and 69 miles (111 km) southwest of Togiak, Alaska. The south side of the promontory...
by CoastView | Feb 4, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, California, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Point Lobos is a rocky headland at the south end of Carmel Bay between Cypress Cove to the north and Headland Cove to the south on the central coast of California, about 19 miles (31 km) north-northwest of Big Sur and 2.5 miles (4 km) southwest of Carmel, California....
