by CoastView | May 9, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Waterfalls
Tutka Bay is a deglaciated fjord that extends 8.5 miles (14 km) in Kachemak Bay State Park from Eldred Passage to the mouth of an unnamed river that flows generally west-northwest for 7 miles (11 km) from small remnants of the Southern Glacier, about 18 miles (29 km)...
by CoastView | May 6, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Whale Passage is a waterway about 10 miles (16 km) long and the site of a historic logging camp, situated between Thorne Island to the east and Prince of Wales Island to the west, about 40 miles (65 km) southwest of Wrangell and 11 miles (18 km) west-northwest of...
by CoastView | May 5, 2023 | 2023, California, Coastal Features, Headlands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History
Cape Mendocino is a major headland on the Lost Coast and the westernmost point in California, situated between Bear River to the north and Mattole River to south, about 210 miles (338 km) northwest of San Francisco, and 28 miles (45 km) southwest of Eureka,...
by CoastView | May 4, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Cape Pankof is a point of land situated at the eastern tip of the lkatan Peninsula on Unimak Island and the site of the shipwrecked SS Oduna, about 148 miles (239 km) northeast of Dutch Harbor and 18 miles (29 km) southeast of False Pass, Alaska. Unimak Island is...
by CoastView | Apr 27, 2023 | 2023, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History, Parks
Año Nuevo Island is the site of a historic light tower and fog signal on about 9 acres (3.6 ha) and separated from Point Año Nuevo by a shallow channel encompassed by Año Nuevo State Park, about 21 miles (34 km) northwest of Santa Cruz and 11 miles (18 km)...
by CoastView | Apr 25, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Coastal Features, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Parks
Siltcoos River begins at the outlet of Siltcoos Lake and meanders generally west for 3 miles (4.8 km) through the Oregon Coastal Dunes to the Pacific Ocean, about 8 miles (13 km) south of Florence and 13 miles (21 km) north of Reedsport, Oregon. A watershed of 43,520...
