by CoastView | Mar 13, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Developments, Embayments, Kachemak, Land Use
Sadie Cove is a deglaciated fjord that extends generally northwest for 6.4 miles (10 km) from the mouth of the Sadie River to Eldred Passage on the southeastern shore of Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, about 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Homer and 10 miles (16...
by CoastView | Mar 12, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Land Use
Esquimalt Lagoon is formed by the Coburg Peninsula, a sand and gravel barrier spit 1.2 miles (1.9 km) long at Royal Roads on Vancouver Island, about 4.4 miles (7.3 km) west of Victoria in the city of Colwood, British Columbia. The word ‘Esquimalt’ is a...
by CoastView | Mar 11, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Mines
Kensington is a complex of underground mines and associated milling facilities on the southern flank of Lions Head Mountain in the Kakuhan Range between Lynn Canal to the west and Berners Bay to the east, about 47 miles (76 km) west-northwest of Juneau and 28 miles...
by CoastView | Mar 9, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Best of 2024, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use
Martins Beach is a public beach adjacent to a private gated community protected from erosion by a seawall, about 6 miles (10 km) south of the community of Half Moon Bay and 0.7 miles (1.1 km) southwest of Lobitos, California. Lobitos means ‘little wolves’...
by CoastView | Mar 7, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Best of 2023, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use
Coal Point forms the tip of the Homer Spit in Kachemak Bay on the southern Kenai Peninsula, about 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Seldovia and 5.7 miles (9 km) southeast of Homer, Alaska. The name is a translation by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey of the Russian...
by CoastView | Mar 5, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Best of 2024, Communities, Developments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Diomede.mp3 Diomede is an Iñupiaq village on the west coast of Little Diomede Island, located less than 1 mile (1.6 km) from the International Date Line, 2.4 miles (3.9 km) east of Big Diomede...
