by CoastView | Dec 12, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Parks
Bayocean was a planned resort community founded in 1906 on a sand spit 4 miles (6.5 km) long and 0.5 miles (0.8 km) wide, that separates Tillamook Bay from the Pacific Ocean, about 63 miles (102 km) west of Portland and 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Tillamook, Oregon....
by CoastView | Dec 11, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Islands, Kachemak, Natural History
Hesketh Island is about 1.2 miles (1.9 km) long, located on the southern shore of Kachemak Bay, 9.5 miles (15 km) south of Homer and 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Seldovia, Alaska. In 1880, William Healey Dall named the island for Sir Thomas Hesketh who visited Cook...
by CoastView | Dec 10, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use
William Head is a peninsula on the north coast of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, between Pedder Bay to the south and Parry Bay to the north, 9.7 miles (15.6 km) southeast of Sooke and 9.6 miles (15.5 km) southwest of Victoria, British Columbia. William Head was named for...
by CoastView | Dec 9, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Ugamak Island is about 5.2 miles (8.4 km) long, located 75 miles (121 km) northeast of Unalaska and 36 miles (58 km) east of Akutan, Alaska. The island is the easternmost of the Krenitzin Island group, in the Fox Islands of the Eastern Aleutians. The Aleut name was...
by CoastView | Dec 7, 2022 | 2022, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Land Use, Natural History
Slates Hot Springs is a community on the Big Sur coast at an elevation of 118 feet (36 m), 34 miles (55 km) southeast of Monterey, and 46 miles (74 km) northwest of San Simeon, California. In 1882, Thomas B. Slate filed a land patent for the site and developed the hot...
by CoastView | Dec 6, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Best of 2022, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Port Camden is an embayment on the northeast coast of Kuiu Island, about 36 miles (58 km) south-southwest of Petersburg, and 61 miles (98 km) northwest of Wrangell, Alaska. Kuiu Island lies between Kupreanof Island to the east and Baranof Island to the west. The...
