by CoastView | Sep 22, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Waterfalls
Cliff Falls is the outlet for Cliff Lake situated at the head of Deep Cove, an embayment on the east coast of Baranof Island with an entrance about 1.1 miles (1.8 km) west of Patterson Point, about 41 miles (66 km) south-southeast of Sitka and 17.5 miles (28 km)...
by CoastView | Sep 21, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Coastal Features, Historical, Oregon
Hobbit Beach is a secluded strand located just north of Heceta Head, about 13 miles (21 km) north of Florence and 12.5 miles (20 km) south of Yachats, Oregon. The beach can be accessed via the Hobbit Trail which begins in a Sitka spruce forest and leads to the base of...
by CoastView | Sep 20, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Kachemak
Mariner Lagoon is situated at the base of the Homer Spit, about 1 mile (1.6 km) southeast of the community of Homer, Alaska. The lagoon was formed when Coal Bay was bisected by a road causeway in the 1940s to provide more reliable access to a deepwater harbor at the...
by CoastView | Sep 17, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Headlands
Point Woronzof is a headland in Cook Inlet on the south coast of Knik Arm, 4 miles (6.5 km) west of downtown Anchorage, Alaska. The point was named after the Russian diplomat Semyon Vorontsov, by Lieutenant Joseph Whidbey of the Royal Navy who was a member of Captain...
by CoastView | Sep 15, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Land Use
Point Spencer is the north end of a spit about 19 miles (31 km) long, between the Bering Sea and Port Clarence, on the Seward Peninsula, about 14 miles (23 km) west of Teller, Alaska. The point was named in 1827 by Captain Frederick W. Beechey for Captain Robert...
by CoastView | Sep 14, 2022 | 2022, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Rivers
Ophir is a small community on Euchre Creek in Curry County, about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) upstream from the Pacific Ocean, and 4 miles (6.5 km) northeast of the community of Nesika Beach, Oregon. Nesika Beach is also a strand about 6 miles (10 km) long between the...
