by CoastView | Oct 14, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Cape Etolin is a point of land extending about 4.6 miles (7.4 km) north into the Bering Sea on the northern coast of Nunivak Island, about 50 miles (80 km) west of Nightmute on the mainland and 4 miles (6 km) north-northeast of Mekoryuk, Alaska. The cape was named...
by CoastView | Oct 11, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Washington
Friday Harbor Laboratories is a marine biology field station of the University of Washington situated on the northern shore of Friday Harbor, an embayment on the eastern coast of San Juan Island, about 72 miles (116 km) northwest of Seattle and 18 miles (29 km) west...
by CoastView | Oct 10, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Chugachik Island is situated about 800 feet (244 m) off the eastern shore and near the head of Kachemak Bay, between Bear Cove to the south and Martin River to the north, on the Kenai Peninsula in Kachemak Bay State Park, about 18 miles (29 km) northeast of Homer and...
by CoastView | Oct 5, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Amak is a volcanic island situated in the Bering Sea that measures about 2 miles (3.2 km) wide and nearly 3 miles (4.8 km) longitudinally, about 172 miles (277 km) northeast of Dutch Harbor and 22 miles (35 km) northwest of Cold Bay, Alaska. The name was first...
by CoastView | Oct 4, 2022 | 2022, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks, Washington
Anacortes ferry terminal is located at Ship Harbor, an embayment on the northwestern shore of Fidalgo Island and the southern shore of Guemes Channel, about 85 miles (137 km) north of Seattle and 3.7 miles (6 km) west of the community of Anacortes, Washington. In...
by CoastView | Oct 2, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Rivers
Osland was once an active fishing and boatbuilding community on the east coast of Smith Island at the mouth of the Skeena River, about 68 miles (109 km) southwest of Terrace and 14 miles (23 km) south-southeast of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. The community is at...
