by CoastView | Apr 21, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, April 2024, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Goodnews Bay is a Central Yup’ik village at the mouth of the Goodnews River where it enters Goodnews Bay, about 117 miles (189 km) south of Bethel and 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Platinum, Alaska. The embayment is about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Cape...
by CoastView | Apr 17, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, April 2024, Biodiversity, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Mines, Natural History
Delarof Harbor is an embayment and the site of the historical village of Unga on the southeast coast of Unga Island, the largest of the Shumagin Islands, about 73 miles (118 km) southwest of Perryville and 9.5 miles (15 km) south of Sand Point, Alaska. The harbor was...
by CoastView | Apr 16, 2024 | 2024, April 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers, Shipwrecks
The Hulks is a floating breakwater consisting of ship hulls anchored off the mouth of Powell River originally to protect a log pond for a pulp and paper mill, about 28 miles (45 km) southeast of Campbell River and 2 miles (3.2 km) north-northwest of the community of...
by CoastView | Apr 6, 2024 | 2024, April 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Malibu Lagoon is an estuary formed by a spit on the north shore of Santa Monica Bay that partially encloses the mouth of Malibu Creek, about 26 miles (42 km) west of downtown Los Angeles and in the community of Malibu, California. The name ‘malibu’ is...
by CoastView | Apr 5, 2024 | Alaska, April 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Point Lay is a delta of the Kokolik River that flows into Kasegaluk Lagoon, a massive embayment separated from the Chukchi Sea by a series of unnamed barrier islands, about 143 miles (231 km) northeast of Point Hope and 96 miles (155 km) southwest of Wainwright,...
by CoastView | Apr 2, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, April 2024, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
Munson Point is a peninsula formed by an ancient lateral moraine located on the northern shore of Kachemak Bay between Beluga Slough to the west and Mariner Lagoon to the east, about 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Seldovia and 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Homer, Alaska....