by CoastView | Mar 17, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, March 2024, Natural History, Parks
Kirby Cove is an embayment in the Marin Headlands on the northern shore of the Golden Gate in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and the site of a historic military installation, about 5.5 miles (9 km) northwest of downtown San Francisco and 2.3 miles (4 km)...
by CoastView | Mar 16, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Land Use, March 2024, Natural History, Rivers
Kasilof River starts at the outlet of Tustumena Lake on the Kenai Peninsula and flows generally northwest for 17 miles (27 km) through the Kenai Lowland to Cook Inlet, draining a watershed of 93,275 acres (37,747 ha), about 51 miles (82 km) north-northeast of Homer...
by CoastView | Mar 7, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, March 2024, Natural History, Rivers
Leffingwell Camp is situated on Flaxman Island, a shape-shifting barrier island separating the Beaufort Sea to the north and Lion Bay to the south, about 58 miles (94 km) east of Deadhorse and 58 miles (94 km) west of Kaktovik, Alaska. Barrier islands stretch across...
by CoastView | Mar 5, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, March 2024, Natural History
Makarius Bay is on the southeastern coast of Amchitka Island, the southernmost of the Rat Islands group in the Aleutian Islands of Southwest Alaska, bounded by the Bering Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south, about 2500 miles (4024 km) north-northwest...
by CoastView | Feb 21, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, February 2024, Historical, Islands, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Kaigani Point is at the southwest tip of Long Island between Kaigani Strait to the west and Cordova Bay to the east, about 100 miles (161 km) northwest of Prince Rupert and 56 miles (90 km) southwest of Ketchikan, Alaska. Long Island is directly south of Sukkwan...
by CoastView | Feb 19, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, February 2024, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Point Barrow is a spit that extends northeast from the mainland for 4 miles (6.4 km) into the Arctic Ocean forming Elson Lagoon to the southeast, about 150 miles (242 km) northwest of Nuiqsut and 9.8 miles (16 km) northeast of Utqiaġvik, Alaska. The point is a spit...