by CoastView | Dec 13, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Kaflia Bay is a funnel-shaped embayment that extends west for 4 miles (6.5 km) from the coast of Shelikof Strait between Cape Ugyak to the north and Cape Gull to the south in Katmai National Park and Preserve, about 93 miles (150 km) southeast of King Salmon and 75...
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 12, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Washington
Tongue Point is at the end of Semiahmoo Spit, a sand bar of 125 acres (51 ha) and about 1 mile (1.6 km) long that partially encloses Drayton Harbor, about 21 miles (34 km) northwest of Bellingham and 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Blaine, Washington. The name of the spit is...
by CoastView | Nov 9, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Sand Point is a community situated on Humboldt Harbor on the western shore of Popof Island, one of the Shumagin Islands in the Gulf of Alaska off the southern coast of the Alaska Peninsula, about 262 miles (422 km) northeast of Dutch Harbor and 65 miles (105 km)...
by CoastView | Oct 22, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Village Islands is a group of six large islands and many smaller islets that extend for 1.7 miles (2.7 km) along the western shore of Uganik Bay on the northwestern coast of Kodiak Island, about 147 miles (237 km) southwest of Homer and 42 miles (68 km) due west of...
by CoastView | Oct 20, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Canneries, Communities, Historical, Natural History, Rivers
Klamath River flows for 257 miles (415 km) from a broad patchwork of lakes and marshes at the edge of the Oregon high desert, through the Cascade Range and the Klamath Mountains, and enters the Pacific Ocean at the community of Requa, about 52 miles (84 km) north of...
