by CoastView | Mar 25, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, March 2023, Mines, Natural History
Claim Point forms the western shore of Chrome Bay at the northern entrance to Port Chatham on the Kenai Peninsula, the site of a historical chromite mine, about 100 miles (162 km) north-northwest of Kodiak and 33 miles (53 km) south-southwest of Homer, Alaska. Port...
by CoastView | Mar 24, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Communities, Embayments, Land Use, March 2023, Natural History
Gwent Cove is a small community at the site of the historical Hidden Inlet fishing village and cannery located adjacent to and west of the entrance to Hidden Inlet, an estuary that trends generally north for 6 miles (9.7 km) from the western shore of Pearse Canal, 45...
by CoastView | Mar 23, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, March 2023, Natural History
Cluster Cone Rocks are at Bear Harbor, the site of a historical lumber wharf built over the rocky point that protects a small south-facing embayment with a sandy beach in Sinkyone Wilderness State Park on the Mendocino coast, about 21 miles (34 km) north-northwest of...
by CoastView | Mar 21, 2023 | 2023, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, March 2023, Natural History, Washington
Dungeness Bay is formed by a complex of depositional features that partially enclose the embayment including Dungeness Spit, Graveyard Spit, Cline Spit, and the Dungeness River delta located on the southern shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the northern coast of...
by CoastView | Mar 20, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, March 2023
Seldovia is a community situated on the eastern shore of Seldovia Bay and on the southern shore of Kachemak Bay in Cook Inlet, about 136 miles (219 km) southwest of Anchorage and 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Homer, Alaska. The name is derived from the Russian word...
by CoastView | Mar 19, 2023 | 2023, British Columbia, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, March 2023, Natural History
Coal Harbour is a community located on the north side of Holberg Inlet in Quatsino Sound, about 220 miles (355 km) northwest of the city of Vancouver and 11 miles (18 km) southwest of Port Hardy, British Columbia. Coal Harbour was named after a small and unsuccessful...
