by CoastView | Jan 20, 2025 | 2025, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Washington
Swantown is a historic area of the Washington State capital, situated at the southernmost end of Budd Inlet in South Puget Sound, about 26 miles (42 km) southwest of Tacoma and now part of downtown Olympia, Washington. The area was named after John M. Swan, an early...
by CoastView | Jan 18, 2025 | 2025, British Columbia, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Mines, Rivers
Stewart is a Canadian border community at the mouth of the Bear River and the head of Portland Canal, connected to Hyder, Alaska by 2 miles (3.2 km) of road, about 99 miles (159 km) east-southeast of Wrangell and 114 miles (183 km) north of Prince Rupert, British...
by CoastView | Jan 17, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Islands, January 2025, Land Use, Parks
Strawberry Hill is formed by a series of uplifted beach ridges on Point Bentinck at the eastern extremity of Hinchinbrook Island, at the southern entrance to Strawberry Channel that separates the island from the mainland, about 53 miles (85 km) south of Valdez and 17...
by CoastView | Jan 16, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Best of 2021, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, January 2025, Land Use
Ankau Saltchucks are a series of interconnected tidal lagoons forming a complex estuary about 1.2 miles (1.9 km) across on the northwestern end of the Phipps Peninsula at the entrance to Yakutat Bay and the west shore of Monti Bay, about 215 miles (346 km) southeast...
by CoastView | Jan 14, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Glaciers, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Mines, Nitrogen Cycle, Parks, Phosphorus, Rivers
Coghill River is in Chugach National Forest and flows southwest for 5 miles (8 km) from the terminus of Dartmouth Glacier to Coghill Lake, which is 4.7 miles (7.5 km) long, and then west-southwest for 3 miles (4.8 km) to College Fjord near Coghill Point, about 54...
by CoastView | Jan 13, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Oregon, Shipwrecks
Winema Beach is a strand adjacent to Winema Lake, originally the location of a townsite platted as Wi-Ne-Ma, near Oretown in southern Tillamook County, about 15 miles (24 km) north of Lincoln City and 4 miles (6 km) south of Pacific City, Oregon. The north coast of...
