by CoastView | Apr 24, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
Beluga Slough is formed by Bishops Beach and is the tidal estuary of a historical stream called Palmer Creek that drained a watershed on the southern flank of Diamond Ridge on the northern shore of Kachemak Bay in the community of Homer, about 121 miles (195 km)...
by CoastView | Apr 22, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Land Use, Natural History
Unalakleet is an Iñupiaq-Yup’ik community built on an ancient beach ridge with an elevation of 7 feet (2 m) at the mouth of the Unalakleet River on the eastern coast of Norton Sound, about 145 miles (234 km) southeast of Nome, and 36 miles (58 km)...
by CoastView | Apr 11, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Washington
Point Roberts is a community situated on 3,136 acres (1,269 ha) of the southern tip of the Tsawwassen Peninsula and represents an exclave of the United States in the Strait of Georgia, about 32 miles (52 km) northwest of Bellingham and 15 miles (24 km) west of Blaine,...
by CoastView | Apr 10, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Fox River starts at the terminus of the Chernof Glacier in the Kenai Mountains at an elevation of 1,100 feet (335 m) and flows northwest for 11 miles (18 km) and then southwest for 16 miles (26 km) to the Fox River Flats at the head of Kachemak Bay, about 52 miles (84...
by CoastView | Apr 7, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Islands, Lighthouses, Natural History
Five Fingers is a group of islets and the site of a historic lighthouse situated at the southern entrance to Stephens Passage, about 67 miles (108 km) east-northeast of Sitka and 41 miles (66 km) northwest of Petersburg, Alaska. Stephens Passage was named in 1794 by...
by CoastView | Apr 6, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Communities
San Elijo Lagoon is 915 acres (370 ha) of tidal wetlands formed by Escondido Creek that drains a watershed of 54,000 acres (22,000 ha) and flows generally southwest for 26 miles (42 km) to the Pacific Ocean at Cardiff, or Cardiff-by-the-Sea, a beach community in...
