by CoastView | Feb 5, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, February 2025, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Rivers
Juneau is Alaska’s state capital, situated at the mouth of Gold Creek on Gastineau Channel, about 93 miles (150 km) northeast of Sitka and 87 miles (140 km) south-southeast of Skagway. The community began in 1880 as a mining camp called ‘Harrisburg,’ after...
by CoastView | Jan 31, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Parks
Old Sitka is the site of a historical Russian settlement called Redoubt Saint Archangel Michael on the southern shore of Starrigavan Bay in Sitka Sound on the west coast of Baranof Island, about 232 miles (373 km) southeast of Yakutat and 5.5 miles (9 km) north of...
by CoastView | Jan 29, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Freshwater, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Parks
Lobos Creek is a stream in the Presidio of San Francisco that drains urban runoff and underground springs, and flows intermittently west for 1 mile (1.6 km) from near Mountain Lake to the Pacific Ocean between Baker Beach and China Beach, about 5 miles (8 km) west of...
by CoastView | Jan 26, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Hatcheries, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Rivers
Little Port Walter is an embayment and the name of a research facility on the southern shore of Port Walter, on the southeastern coast of Baranof Island and on the western shore of Chatham Strait, about 53 miles (85 km) south-southeast of Sitka and 9 miles (14.5 km)...
by CoastView | Jan 25, 2025 | 2025, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Freshwater, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Rivers
Cowichan Bay is a community situated on the south shore of an estuary shared by the Cowichan and Koksilah Rivers that form an extensive tidal flat on the east coast of southern Vancouver Island, about 26 miles (42 km) north-northwest of Victoria and 4 miles (6 km)...
by CoastView | Jan 24, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Atmospheric Aerosols, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Rivers
Eagle River Flats is a tidal flat and salt marsh of 2,471 acres (1,000 ha) at the mouth of Eagle River on Eagle Bay, which is on the eastern shore of Knik Arm in Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson, about 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Anchorage and 7 miles (11 km) west of...
