by CoastView | Jan 18, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Mines, Natural History, Rivers
Valdez is a community situated on the outwash fan of Mineral Creek on the north shore and near the head of Port Valdez in northeastern Prince William Sound, about 82 miles (132 km) east-northeast of Whittier and 46 miles (74 km) north-northwest of Cordova, Alaska....
by CoastView | Jan 17, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Kotzebue is a community situated between Cape Blossom to the south and Pipe Spit to the east near the tip of the Baldwin Peninsula that separates Kotzebue Sound from Hotham Inlet, about 149 miles (240 km) southeast of Point Hope and 73 miles (117 km) west-northwest of...
by CoastView | Jan 15, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History
Goddard is a historic settlement situated in Hot Springs Bay on the west coast of Baranof Island, about 92 miles (148 km) west of Petersburg and 15 miles (24 km) south of Sitka, Alaska. Russian fur hunters probably established the site in 1800 during the eastward...
by CoastView | Jan 14, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Washington
Titlow Beach is an urban neighborhood on the eastern shore of the Tacoma Narrows at the site of a historical fish camp used by the Puyallup and Nisqually tribes situated on a tidal wetland now called Titlow Lagoon, about 5.8 miles (9.4 km) south-southeast of Gig...
by CoastView | Jan 13, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Whyac is a historical Ditidaht First Nation village on the southern shore beside Nitinat Narrows, a tidal channel about 1.9 miles (3 km) long that connects Nitinat Lake to the Pacific Ocean on the north shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca on Vancouver Island, about 22...
by CoastView | Jan 12, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Hunter Bay is the estuary for several watersheds that support important sockeyes salmon populations and the site of a historical salmon cannery on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island near the abandoned village of Klinkwan, about 89 miles (143 km) northwest of...
