by CoastView | Jun 17, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Natural History, Parks
The Semidi Islands are a group of rocks, reefs, and islands lying off the coast of the Alaska Peninsula in the Gulf of Alaska, about 92 miles (148 km) east-northeast of Perryville, and 61 miles (98 km) east of Chignik, Alaska. The largest islands of the group are...
by CoastView | Jun 16, 2024 | 2024, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Oregon, Rivers
Yachats is a small community at the mouth of the Yachats River on the central Oregon coast, about 54 miles (87 km) northwest of Eugene and 22 miles (35 km) south of Newport, Oregon. The Yachats River flows through the Coast Range for about 12 miles ((19 km) and has a...
by CoastView | Jun 13, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Islands, Natural History, Parks
Mount Shishaldin is a volcano on Unimak Island that rises over 9,000 ft (2800 m) directly from the Pacific Ocean and is the highest of several volcanos on the island, about 120 miles (194 km) northeast of Dutch Harbor and 24 miles (39 km) west-southwest of False Pass,...
by CoastView | Jun 6, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Parks
Aniakchak Bay is on the Pacific coast of Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve that surrounds Mount Aniakchak, a caldera in the Aleutian Range, about 200 miles (323 km) southwest of Kodiak and 50 miles (81 km) northeast of Chignik, Alaska. The caldera is 6 miles...
by CoastView | Jun 2, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical
Griffin Point, also called Uqsruqtalik in the Iñupiat language, is the site of a traditional fish camp on the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, about 240 miles (387 km) west-northwest of Tuktoyuktuk and 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Kaktovik,...
by CoastView | May 26, 2024 | 2024, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Natural History, Washington
Oysterville is located in Willapa Bay on the Long Beach Peninsula, about 28 miles (45 km) north-northwest of Astoria and 17 miles (27 km) southwest of Raymond, Washington. The Long Beach Peninsula is a sand spit that separates Willapa Bay from the Pacific Ocean and is...
