by CoastView | Mar 22, 2025 | 2025, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Cormorant-1.mp3 Cormorant Point is a headland between Cordova Bay and Margaret Bay in Saanich’s Gordon Head neighborhood, about 11 miles (18 km) south-southeast of Sidney and 5.5 miles...
by CoastView | Mar 20, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Rivers
Listen the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Auke-Creek.mp3 Auke Creek lies on the west coast of the Mendenhall Peninsula at the head of Auke Bay—a three‐mile (5 km) inlet at the northern end of Stephens Passage, about 66 miles (106 km)...
by CoastView | Mar 19, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Developments, Freshwater, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Oso-Flaco.mp3 Oso Flaco Creek drains a watershed of approximately 7,400 acres (2,995 ha) consisting mostly of agricultural land before forming Oso Flaco Lake, now part of the Oso Flaco Lake...
by CoastView | Mar 17, 2025 | 2025, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Hastings.mp3 Hastings Arm extends 14 miles (23 km) north from Observatory Inlet into the Coast Mountains and terminates at the mouth of the Kshwan River, about 23 miles (37 km) south‐southeast...
by CoastView | Mar 16, 2025 | 2025, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Washington
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Friday-Harbor.mp3 Friday Harbor is a community at the head of a protected embayment on the eastern coast of San Juan Island, the archipelago’s second-largest and most populous island, about 18...
by CoastView | Mar 15, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Washington
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Ozette-Village.mp3 Ozette is a historical Makah village at Cape Alava, the Olympic Peninsula’s westernmost point, about 19 miles (31 km) north-northwest of La Push and 15 miles (24 km)...