by CoastView | Jun 5, 2023 | 2023, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Daajing Giids was historically known as the village of Queen Charlotte and is situated on the northern shore of Skidegate Inlet on Graham Island in the Haida Gwaii archipelago, about 104 miles (167 km) southwest of Prince Rupert and 52 miles (84 km) south of Masset,...
by CoastView | Jun 3, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Point Lena is located on Favorite Channel, between Point Stephens to the north and Point Louisa to the south, and is the site of an infamous historical shipwreck and the present-day Ted Stevens Marine Research Institute, about 63 miles (102 km) south-southeast of...
by CoastView | Jun 2, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Russian Gulch is a river that starts at an elevation of about 800 feet (244 m) on the northwestern flank of Hi Chute Ridge in the California Coast Ranges and flows generally northwest for 5 miles (8 km) to the Pacific Ocean, draining a watershed of 2,456 acres (994...
by CoastView | Jun 1, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Unga Island is part of the Shumagin Islands situated south of the Alaska Peninsula in the Gulf of Alaska, and the site of a petrified forest exposed along the eroding northern shore, about 64 miles (103 km) northeast of King Cove and 11 miles (18 km) northwest of Sand...
by CoastView | May 30, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
Nubble Point is a bedrock outcrop connected to the Kenai Peninsula mainland by MacDonald Spit which forms and separates Kasitsna Bay from Kachemak Bay, about 11 miles (18 km) south of Homer and 6.5 miles (10.5 km) northeast of Seldovia, Alaska. The point’s name...
by CoastView | May 29, 2023 | 2023, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
False Narrows is a waterway between 10 and 30 feet (3-9 m) deep, navigable only by small boats and with local knowledge, and about 1.3 miles (2 km) long that separates Gabriola Island to the north from Mudge Island to the south, about 37 miles (60 km) northwest of...
