by CoastView | Feb 3, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Washington
Little Boston is a community at the base of Point Julia on the east side entrance of Port Gamble, an inlet on the Kitsap Peninsula near the entrance to Hood Canal, about 21 miles (34 km) northwest of Seattle and 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Port Townsend, Washington....
by CoastView | Jan 31, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Shelter Cabins
Kookoolik is a historical community, also known as Kukulik, located on Cape Kookoolik on the northern coast of Saint Lawrence Island, about 160 miles (258 km) southwest of Nome and 4 miles (6.5 km) east of Savoonga, Alaska. Kookoolik was one of several Saint Lawrence...
by CoastView | Jan 30, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Communities, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Kapaloak Creek starts from an elevation of roughly 1200 feet (366 m) in the Lisburne Hills and flows generally west for 8.5 miles (14 km) to Cape Dyer on the Chukchi Sea and the site of a historical Iñupiat village, about 110 miles (177 km) southwest of Point Lay and...
by CoastView | Jan 25, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Natural History, Parks
Kuliak Bay is about 4 miles (6.5 km) wide at the entrance on the western shore of Shelikof Strait and gradually tapers to the northwest for 5 miles (8 km) into Katmai National Park and Preserve on the Alaska Peninsula, about 92 miles (148 km) southeast of King Salmon...
by CoastView | Jan 13, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Whyac is a historical Ditidaht First Nation village on the southern shore beside Nitinat Narrows, a tidal channel about 1.9 miles (3 km) long that connects Nitinat Lake to the Pacific Ocean on the north shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca on Vancouver Island, about 22...
by CoastView | Jan 4, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Ipiutak is the Iñupiaq name for a prehistorical village that is now an archaeological site and National Historic Landmark on the Tigara Peninsula and the southern shore of Ipiutak Lagoon, about 133 miles (215 km) southwest of Point Lay and 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of...
