by CoastView | Feb 14, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Swanson River starts at an elevation of 224 feet (68 m) at the outlet of Gene Lake in the Swan Lake district on the Kenai Peninsula and flows generally southwest for 40 miles (64 km), draining a watershed of 162,496 acres (65,760 ha), to Number Three Bay on the...
by CoastView | Feb 11, 2024 | 2024, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Pitkins Curve Bridge and Rock Shed are currently one of the most active landslide sites on the Big Sur Coast Highway situated just north of Limekiln State Park, about 45 miles (73 km) southeast of Monterey and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of Lucia, California. The area is...
by CoastView | Feb 9, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Developments, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Ecstall River starts from a cirque glacier at an elevation of roughly 3100 feet (945 m) in the Kitimat Ranges of the Coast Mountains and flows generally north-northwest for about 68 miles (110 km), draining a watershed of 207,568 acres (84,000 ha), to the lower tidal...
by CoastView | Feb 3, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Washington
Little Boston is a community at the base of Point Julia on the east side entrance of Port Gamble, an inlet on the Kitsap Peninsula near the entrance to Hood Canal, about 21 miles (34 km) northwest of Seattle and 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Port Townsend, Washington....
by CoastView | Jan 28, 2024 | 2024, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Land Use
KFS WebSDR is co-located with the KFS Kiwi high-frequency radio receiver station near the mouth of Lobitos Creek, about 5.5 miles (9 km) south of Half Moon Bay and 0.8 miles (1.3 km) west of Lobitos, California. For many years this station provided continuous-wave...
by CoastView | Jan 27, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Mines, Natural History
Blubber Bay is a community and an embayment on the northern tip of Texada Island, between the Strait of Georgia to the west and Malaspina Strait to the east, and the site of a historical shore whaling station and present-day limestone mine, about 76 miles (122 km)...
