by CoastView | Apr 28, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Will Rogers-Wiley Post Memorial is at Walakpa Bay, a coastal inlet that extends 6 miles (10 km) east from the Chukchi Sea and is fed by a watershed of 56,487 acres (22,860 ha), about 76 miles (123 km) northeast of Wainwright and 11 miles (18 km) southwest of...
by CoastView | Apr 27, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History
Friendly Cove is an embayment on Nootka Island situated at the northern entrance to Nootka Sound, and is the site of a historic lighthouse and the Yuquot National Historic Site of Canada, about 72 miles (116 km) south-southeast of Port McNeill and 45 miles (72 km)...
by CoastView | Apr 21, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Goodnews Bay is a Central Yup’ik village at the mouth of the Goodnews River where it enters Goodnews Bay, about 117 miles (189 km) south of Bethel and 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Platinum, Alaska. The embayment is about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Cape...
by CoastView | Apr 17, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Mines, Natural History
Delarof Harbor is an embayment and the site of the historical village of Unga on the southeast coast of Unga Island, the largest of the Shumagin Islands, about 73 miles (118 km) southwest of Perryville and 9.5 miles (15 km) south of Sand Point, Alaska. The harbor was...
by CoastView | Apr 15, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Eldred Rock is a small island and site of a historic lighthouse situated adjacent to Sullivan Island in Lynn Canal, between the Chilkat Range to the west and the Kakuhan Range to the east, about 55 miles (89 km) northwest of Juneau and 20 miles (32 km) south-southeast...
by CoastView | Apr 12, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Washington
Blake Island is a Washington State Marine Park in Puget Sound situated between Bainbridge Island to the north and Vashon Island to the south, about 8 miles (13 km) southwest of downtown Seattle and 7 miles (11 km) east of Port Orchard, Washington. The island was named...
