by CoastView | Aug 22, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Islands
Jeanette Island is a barrier island about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) long, and one of McClure Islands on the Beaufort Sea coast, about 92 miles (148 km) west-northwest of Kaktovik and 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Deadhorse, Alaska. Jeanette Island was named in 1881 by...
by CoastView | Aug 21, 2023 | 2023, Coastal Features, Headlands, Washington
Fuca Pillar is a prominent rectangular sea stack on the west side of Cape Flattery, about 18 miles (29 km) southwest of Port Renfrew and 6 miles (10 km) west-northwest of Neah Bay, Washington. The Fuca Pillar is named for Ioannis Phokas, better known by the Spanish...
by CoastView | Aug 19, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Natural History
James Island is one of the Southern Gulf Islands lying in Haro Strait, approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) off the coast of Vancouver Island, and 12 miles (19 km) north of Victoria, British Columbia. The island was named in 1858 by Captain George Henry Richards on the...
by CoastView | Aug 8, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments
The Salt Chuck is a lagoon at the head of Hobart Bay on the eastern shore of Stephens Passage, about 71 miles (115 km) southeast of Juneau and 46 miles (74 km) north-northwest of Petersburg, Alaska. The bay was named in 1889 by Lieutenant Commander H. B. Mansfield of...
by CoastView | Aug 6, 2023 | 2023, California, Coastal Features, Sea Caves
The Little River Punchbowl is a littoral sinkhole forming a large open pit surrounded by forest near Little River, about 3.3 miles (5.3 km) northwest of Albion and 2.7 miles (4.4 km) south-southeast of Mendocino, California. The sinkhole was formed by the collapse of...
by CoastView | Aug 3, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Parks, Waterfalls
Mount Douglas is a stratovolcano with an elevation of 7,000 feet (2,134 m) located on Kamishak Bay, near the northern part of the Alaska Peninsula and within Katmai National Park and Preserve, about 113 miles (182 km) east of King Salmon and 91 miles (147 km)...
