by CoastView | Oct 12, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Rivers
Kern Creek is between Portage and Girdwood on the northern shore of Turnagain Arm, about 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Anchorage and 16 miles (26 km) northwest of Whittier, Alaska. The stream flows southwest for 3.5 miles (5.6 km) from the Chugach Mountains. The name...
by CoastView | Oct 7, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Washington
Hedley Spit is a sand deposit with an elevation of about 3.5 feet (1 m), located on Bainbridge Island at Point Monroe, north of Faye Bainbridge State Park, about 11 miles (18 km) northwest of Seattle and 1 mile (1.6 km) northeast of Port Madison, Washington. For...
by CoastView | Oct 3, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Año Nuevo Dunes are in Año Nuevo State Park which is known for pinniped rookeries and seabirds, located on a low rocky windswept point, about 55 miles (89 km) south of San Francisco and 21 miles (34 km) northwest of Santa Cruz, California. The reserve is a habitat for...
by CoastView | Oct 2, 2023 | 2023, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Communities, Developments, Land Use
Chemainus is a community founded as a logging town in 1858 on the western shore of Stuart Channel located on the east coast of southern Vancouver Island, about 36 miles (58 km) southwest of Vancouver and 24 miles (39 km) northwest of Sidney, British Columbia. The town...
by CoastView | Oct 1, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Natural History
Cannery Cove is on the southeastern shore and near the head of North Arm Moira Sound, about 28 miles (45 km) east-southeast of Hydaburg and 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Ketchikan, Alaska. The local name for the cove was reported in 1905 by Edmund F. Dickins who...
by CoastView | Sep 30, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use
Lomen & Company established a reindeer meatpacking facility in 1915 on Golovnin Bay near the Swedish Mission, about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Elim and 7.8 miles (12.5 km) southeast of Golovin, Alaska. Alaskan reindeer herding started in the early 1890s as a...
