by CoastView | Oct 28, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Saint Michael is a community situated on the eastern coast of Saint Michael Island, on Saint Michael Bay which is on the southern coast of Norton Sound, about 47 miles (76 km) southwest of Unalakleet and 8 miles (13 km) east-southeast of Stebbins, Alaska. The...
by CoastView | Oct 27, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Wainwright is an Iñupiat community on the Chukchi Sea coastline situated on a barrier beach adjacent to Wainwright Inlet and the Kuk River, about 94 miles (151 km) northeast of Point Lay and 86 miles (138 km) southwest of Utqiaġvik, Alaska. The inlet is also known as...
by CoastView | Oct 23, 2023 | 2023, British Columbia, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Rivers
Graveyard Point is a historical steamboat landing and telegraph station near the confluence of the Shames River and the Skeena River, about 58 miles (94 km) east of Prince Rupert and 14 miles (23 km) southwest of Terrace, British Columbia. The point is a natural...
by CoastView | Oct 21, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Communities, Developments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Nikolski is a community located near the southwest end of Umnak Island, one of the Fox Islands in the eastern Aleutian Islands, about 910 miles (1,468 km) southwest of Anchorage and 116 miles (187 km) southwest of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Nikolski has an unlighted gravel...
by CoastView | Oct 19, 2023 | 2023, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Washington
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard is a U.S Navy facility on 179 acres (72.4 ha) on the north shore of Sinclair Inlet at Bremerton, about 23 miles (37 km) northwest of Tacoma and 15 miles (24 km) west of Seattle, Washington. It is the Pacific Northwest’s largest naval...
by CoastView | Oct 18, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Natural History
Gull Rock is a point of land on the south shore of Turnagain Arm on the Kenai Peninsula, about 18 miles (29 km) south-southeast of Anchorage and 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Hope, Alaska. The name was first published in 1943 by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey....
