by CoastView | Jan 20, 2025 | 2025, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Washington
Swantown is a historic area of the Washington State capital, situated at the southernmost end of Budd Inlet in South Puget Sound, about 26 miles (42 km) southwest of Tacoma and now part of downtown Olympia, Washington. The area was named after John M. Swan, an early...
by CoastView | Jan 19, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Canneries, Developments, Embayments, Historical, January 2025, Land Use
Icy Strait Point is a restored historic salmon cannery situated on Cannery Point, on the south shore of Icy Strait and on the eastern shore at the mouth of Port Frederick, a deep embayment on the northeast coast of Chichagof Island, about 22 miles (35 km)...
by CoastView | Jan 18, 2025 | 2025, British Columbia, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Mines, Rivers
Stewart is a Canadian border community at the mouth of the Bear River and the head of Portland Canal, connected to Hyder, Alaska by 2 miles (3.2 km) of road, about 99 miles (159 km) east-southeast of Wrangell and 114 miles (183 km) north of Prince Rupert, British...
by CoastView | Jan 17, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Islands, January 2025, Land Use, Parks
Strawberry Hill is formed by a series of uplifted beach ridges on Point Bentinck at the eastern extremity of Hinchinbrook Island, at the southern entrance to Strawberry Channel that separates the island from the mainland, about 53 miles (85 km) south of Valdez and 17...
by CoastView | Jan 16, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Best of 2021, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, January 2025, Land Use
Ankau Saltchucks are a series of interconnected tidal lagoons forming a complex estuary about 1.2 miles (1.9 km) across on the northwestern end of the Phipps Peninsula at the entrance to Yakutat Bay and the west shore of Monti Bay, about 215 miles (346 km) southeast...
by CoastView | Jan 15, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, California, Developments, Headlands, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Parks
Fort Cronkhite is situated on the Marin Headlands and is a historic U.S. Army facility that supported Battery Townsley, part of the coastal artillery defenses of San Francisco Bay during World War II, and now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, about 8...
