by CoastView | Dec 13, 2024 | 2024, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Shipwrecks
La Honda Canyon is a valley formed by CaƱada Honda Creek that enters the Pacific Ocean 0.4 miles (0.6 km) near Woodbury Rocks north of Point Pedernales, about 56 miles (90 km) west-northwest of Santa Barbara and 11 miles (18 km) west-southwest of Lompoc, California....
by CoastView | Dec 12, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
King Island is about 1.7 miles (2.7 km) long and 1.4 miles (2.3 km) wide with steep rocky cliffs on all sides and a summit elevation of about 1,050 feet (320 m), located in the northern Bering Sea, about 86 miles (139 km) northwest of Nome, and 44 miles (71 km) south...
by CoastView | Dec 11, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Washington
Shelton is a community located on the southwest shore of Oakland Bay, an estuary connected to South Puget Sound by Hammersley Inlet, about 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Seattle and 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Olympia, Washington. Hammersley Inlet is about 9 miles...
by CoastView | Dec 9, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks
Cerantes Rocks is a group of reefs and one large islet situated off of San Juan Point, a rocky headland forming the eastern entrance to Port San Juan on Vancouver Island, about 51 miles (82 km) west-northwest of Victoria and 2.4 miles (4 km) southwest of Port Renfrew,...
by CoastView | Dec 8, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Waterfalls
Port Walter is a fjord 3.7 miles (6 km) long that opens into Chatham Strait on the southeast coast of Baranof Island, about 91 miles (146 km) west of Wrangell and 51 miles (82 km) south-southeast of Sitka, Alaska. The fjord includes a small embayment near the entrance...
by CoastView | Dec 7, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Parks
Sukoi Bay is situated at Cape Douglas on the western shore of Shelikof Strait, in Katmai National Park and Preserve, about 121 miles (195 km) east of King Salmon and 83 miles (134 km) southwest of Homer, Alaska. The name is a transliteration by the U.S. Coast and...
