by CoastView | Sep 17, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Shipwrecks
Battery Point forms the western shore of a crescent-shaped bight, and the harbor for Crescent City, about 22 miles (35 km) south-southeast of Brookings and 66 miles (106 km) north of Eureka, California. The point is named for a battery of cannons that were salvaged...
by CoastView | Sep 16, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Spook Island is in Cordova Bay, on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island, about 23 miles (37 km) southeast of Craig and across Sukkwan Strait from and 0.75 miles (1.2 km) west of Hydaburg, Alaska. Spook Island is north of Sukkwan Island and separated by Sukkwan...
by CoastView | Sep 15, 2024 | 2024, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Washington
Skull Island is about 0.13 miles (0.2 km) long with an area of 2.5 acres (1.0 ha) situated at the head of Massacre Bay in West Sound, a large embayment on the southern shore of Orcas Island, about 25 miles (40 km) west-southwest of Bellingham and 8.5 miles (14 km)...
by CoastView | Sep 14, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Climate Change, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Rivers
Portage is a historical community and railroad siding at milepost 64.2 on the Alaska Railroad at the head of Turnagain Arm in the Chugach National Forest, about 41 miles (66 km) south of Anchorage and 11 miles (18 km) northwest of Whittier, Alaska. Portage was once a...
by CoastView | Sep 13, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Freshwater, Historical, Parks, Rivers
Togiak River starts at Togiak Lake and drains a watershed of 1,279,512 acres (517,800 ha), flowing generally southwest for 58 miles (93 km) to a wetland marsh about 4 miles (6 km) wide where the river channel splits, with the east channel flowing past the village of...
by CoastView | Sep 12, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Rivers
Ship Creek flows generally northwest for about 28 miles (45 km) from the Chugach Mountains to Knik Arm, about 22 miles (35 km) southwest of the village of Knik and 0.5 miles (0.8 km north of downtown Anchorage, Alaska. The watershed drains 81,344 acres (32,919 ha)...
