by CoastView | Jan 16, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Seward is a historic community at the base of Mount Marathon on the western shore of Resurrection Bay on the Kenai Peninsula and near the mouth of the Resurrection River, about 80 miles (129 km) west-northwest of Homer and 79 miles (127 km) south of Anchorage, Alaska....
by CoastView | Jan 15, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History
Goddard is a historic settlement situated in Hot Springs Bay on the west coast of Baranof Island, about 92 miles (148 km) west of Petersburg and 15 miles (24 km) south of Sitka, Alaska. Russian fur hunters probably established the site in 1800 during the eastward...
by CoastView | Jan 14, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Washington
Titlow Beach is an urban neighborhood on the eastern shore of the Tacoma Narrows at the site of a historical fish camp used by the Puyallup and Nisqually tribes situated on a tidal wetland now called Titlow Lagoon, about 5.8 miles (9.4 km) south-southeast of Gig...
by CoastView | Jan 13, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Whyac is a historical Ditidaht First Nation village on the southern shore beside Nitinat Narrows, a tidal channel about 1.9 miles (3 km) long that connects Nitinat Lake to the Pacific Ocean on the north shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca on Vancouver Island, about 22...
by CoastView | Jan 12, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Hunter Bay is the estuary for several watersheds that support important sockeyes salmon populations and the site of a historical salmon cannery on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island near the abandoned village of Klinkwan, about 89 miles (143 km) northwest of...
by CoastView | Jan 11, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Campbell Creek starts at the confluence of the North and South forks in Campbell Park on the western flank of the Chugach Mountains and flows generally southwest for 10 miles (16 km) through the city of Anchorage to Campbell Lake, and the lake outflow then enters...
