by CoastView | Nov 27, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Shaw Island is located in Katmai National Park and Preserve, 2.5 miles (4 km) north of the Alaska Peninsula near the entrance to Kamishak Bay on the western shore of Cook Inlet, about 119 miles (192 km) east-northeast of King Salmon and 79 miles (127 km) southwest of...
by CoastView | Nov 25, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Developments, Embayments
Broken Oar Cove is an embayment on the southeast coast of Yakutat Bay and the site of a logging operation, about 208 miles (335 km) northwest of Juneau and 3.3 miles (5.3 km) northeast of Yakutat, Alaska. Sawmill Cove is a southern extension of Broken Oar Cove and is...
by CoastView | Nov 23, 2023 | 2023, California, Communities, Embayments
Marshall is on the northeast shore of Tomales Bay, about 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Bodega Bay and 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Tomales, California. The town is named after the Marshall brothers who established a dairying industry in the 1850s. Starting in the 1870s,...
by CoastView | Nov 22, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Embayments, Natural History, Parks
Cape Kubugakli is a prominent headland on Shelikof Strait that forms the southwest coast of Kashvik Bay and marks the southern coastal boundary of Katmai National Park and Preserve, about 98 miles (158 km) west-northwest of Kodiak and 75 miles (121 km) southeast of...
by CoastView | Nov 21, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Rivers
Dutton is a historical mining camp at the mouth of Ptarmigan Creek at the head of Cottonwood Bay, about 78 miles (126 km) west of Homer and 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Pedro Bay, Alaska. Ptarmigan Creek flows east for 10 miles (16 km) through the Chigmit Mountains...
by CoastView | Nov 14, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Best of 2023, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Mekoryuk is a community situated at the western entrance to Shoal Bay on the northern shore of Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea, about 153 miles (246 km) west-southwest of Bethel and 80 miles (129 km) south of Hooper Bay, Alaska. Mekoryuk is the only community on the...
