by CoastView | Dec 21, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Freshwater, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Thorne Bay is a small community, and an estuary of the Thorne River on the eastern coast of Prince of Wales Island, the largest of approximately 1,100 islands interspersed by marine channels in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 55 miles (89 km)...
by CoastView | Dec 19, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Canneries, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use
Cannery Row is the Monterey waterfront between San Carlos Beach and Cabrillo Beach, or between the Monterey Harbor Marina and the Monterey Bay Aquarium, where several historical Pacific sardine canneries once operated, about 25 miles (40 km) south-southeast of Santa...
by CoastView | Dec 16, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Freshwater, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Sooke is a community on the western shore of Sooke Harbour, a narrow natural embayment separated from the Strait of Juan de Fuca by Whiffin Spit, about 35 miles (56 km) southwest of Port Renfrew and 17 miles (27 km) west-southwest of Victoria, British Columbia. Sooke...
by CoastView | Dec 14, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Mines, Rivers
Ketchikan is a coastal community and U.S. port of entry on the north shore of Tongass Narrows, on the southern coast of Revillagigedo Island, about 88 miles (142 km) northwest of Prince Rupert and 84 miles (135 km) south-southeast of Wrangell, Alaska. Tongass Narrows...
by CoastView | Dec 13, 2024 | 2024, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Shipwrecks
La Honda Canyon is a valley formed by CaƱada Honda Creek that enters the Pacific Ocean 0.4 miles (0.6 km) near Woodbury Rocks north of Point Pedernales, about 56 miles (90 km) west-northwest of Santa Barbara and 11 miles (18 km) west-southwest of Lompoc, California....
by CoastView | Dec 11, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Washington
Shelton is a community located on the southwest shore of Oakland Bay, an estuary connected to South Puget Sound by Hammersley Inlet, about 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Seattle and 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Olympia, Washington. Hammersley Inlet is about 9 miles...
