by CoastView | May 5, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Dutch-Harbor.mp3 Dutch Harbor is an anchorage and fish-processing facility on the east coast of Amaknak Island, bordered by Mount Ballyhoo to the west and a gravel spit to the east that forms...
by CoastView | May 4, 2025 | 2025, Best of 2025, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Rivers, Washington
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Dismal-Nitch.mp3 Dismal Nitch is a cove on the north shore of the lower Columbia River, historically significant as the last campsite of the Lewis and Clark Expedition before they sighted the...
by CoastView | May 3, 2025 | 2025, British Columbia, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Kitsault.mp3 Kitsault is a historic mining community near the mouth of the Kitsault River, at the head of Alice Arm—a fjord and eastern extension of Observatory Inlet—about 86 miles (138 km)...
by CoastView | Apr 30, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, California, Chemical Pollution, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Rivers
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Long-Beach.mp3 The Los Angeles River begins at the confluence of Bell Creek and Arroyo Calabasas, which drain from the Simi Hills and Santa Monica Mountains respectively, and flows southeast...
by CoastView | Apr 29, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Port-Hobron-1.mp3 Port Hobron, an abandoned whaling station, sits on the south shore of a fjord of the same name on the north coast of Sitkalidak Island, about 6 miles (10 km) southeast of Old...
by CoastView | Apr 28, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Afognak.mp3 Afognak, located at the head of Marmot Bay on the southeast coast of Afognak Island in the Kodiak Archipelago, is a historic village abandoned after the 1964 tsunami, about 122...