by CoastView | Dec 6, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Communities, December 2024, Developments, Freshwater, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
Muir Beach is a small community situated on the west coast of the Marin Peninsula overlooking the Pacific Ocean, with the adjacent sand beach in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, about 11 miles (18 km) northwest of San Francisco and 5 miles (8 km) southeast of...
by CoastView | Nov 29, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Freshwater, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, November 2024, Parks, Rivers
Thoms Place is an embayment, and a widely distributed remote community, along Zimovia Strait on the southwest coast of Wrangell Island, about 62 miles (100 km) north-northwest of Ketchikan and 22 miles (35 km) south-southeast of Wrangell, Alaska. Zimovia Strait is a...
by CoastView | Nov 25, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Freshwater, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, November 2024
Chenega Glacier starts at an elevation of over 5,000 feet (1524 m) in the Sargent Icefield in Chugach National Forest and flows northeast for 10 miles (16 km) and then east for 4 miles (6 km) to Nassau Fjord on the western shore of Prince William Sound on the Kenai...
by CoastView | Nov 14, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Freshwater, Historical, Islands, Land Use, November 2024, Parks, Rivers, Washington
La Push is the traditional community of the Quileute people situated at the mouth of the Quillayute River within the Quileute Indian Reservation and surrounded by the coastal strip of Olympic National Park, about 32 miles (51 km) south of Neah Bay and 12 miles (19 km)...
by CoastView | Nov 10, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Climate Change, Embayments, Freshwater, Glaciers, Historical, November 2024
Columbia Glacier starts from ice fields at elevations over 9,000 feet (2743 m) near Mount Witherspoon in the Chugach Mountains and flows east and then generally south for 23 miles (37 km) to Columbia Bay on the north coast of Prince William Sound, about 62 miles (100...
by CoastView | Nov 4, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, California, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Freshwater, Historical, Land Use, Nitrogen Cycle, November 2024, Phosphorus, Rivers
Elkhorn Slough is an estuary about 7 miles (11 km) long that connects with Monterey Bay at the community of Moss Landing, about 17 miles (27 km) southeast of Santa Cruz and 16 miles (26 km) north-northeast of Monterey, California. Elkhorn Slough is the third-largest...
