by CoastView | Jan 31, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Parks
Old Sitka is the site of a historical Russian settlement called Redoubt Saint Archangel Michael on the southern shore of Starrigavan Bay in Sitka Sound on the west coast of Baranof Island, about 232 miles (373 km) southeast of Yakutat and 5.5 miles (9 km) north of...
by CoastView | Jan 30, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Mines, Parks
Scidmore Bay is partially enclosed by the Gilbert Peninsula to the east and the Fairweather Mountains to the west, and is situated within Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 119 miles (192 km) southeast of Yakutat and 43 miles (69 km) northwest of Gustavus,...
by CoastView | Jan 29, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Freshwater, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Parks
Lobos Creek is a stream in the Presidio of San Francisco that drains urban runoff and underground springs, and flows intermittently west for 1 mile (1.6 km) from near Mountain Lake to the Pacific Ocean between Baker Beach and China Beach, about 5 miles (8 km) west of...
by CoastView | Jan 28, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, January 2025
Mount Westdahl, also known as Westdahl Peak, is a relatively young glacier-capped volcano with a summit elevation of 5,118 feet (1,560 m), located at the southwest end of Unimak Island in the eastern Aleutian Islands, about 527 miles (848 km) southwest of Kodiak and...
by CoastView | Jan 27, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Oregon, Parks
Crescent Beach is situated between Ecola Point and Chapman Point in Ecola State Park, about 20 miles (32 km) south-southwest of Astoria and 2 miles (3.2 km) north-northwest of Cannon Beach, Oregon. The beach is accessible by a trail 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long from Ecola...
by CoastView | Jan 26, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Hatcheries, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Rivers
Little Port Walter is an embayment and the name of a research facility on the southern shore of Port Walter, on the southeastern coast of Baranof Island and on the western shore of Chatham Strait, about 53 miles (85 km) south-southeast of Sitka and 9 miles (14.5 km)...
