by CoastView | Oct 25, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers, Washington
Lyre River starts at the outlet of Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park and flows generally northwest for 5 miles (8 km) to Low Point on the Strait of Juan de Fuca draining a watershed of 43,200 acres (17,482 ha), about 21 miles (34 km) southeast of Clallam Bay and...
by CoastView | Oct 22, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Village Islands is a group of six large islands and many smaller islets that extend for 1.7 miles (2.7 km) along the western shore of Uganik Bay on the northwestern coast of Kodiak Island, about 147 miles (237 km) southwest of Homer and 42 miles (68 km) due west of...
by CoastView | Oct 21, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Communities, Developments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Nikolski is a community located near the southwest end of Umnak Island, one of the Fox Islands in the eastern Aleutian Islands, about 910 miles (1,468 km) southwest of Anchorage and 116 miles (187 km) southwest of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Nikolski has an unlighted gravel...
by CoastView | Oct 20, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Canneries, Communities, Historical, Natural History, Rivers
Klamath River flows for 257 miles (415 km) from a broad patchwork of lakes and marshes at the edge of the Oregon high desert, through the Cascade Range and the Klamath Mountains, and enters the Pacific Ocean at the community of Requa, about 52 miles (84 km) north of...
by CoastView | Oct 19, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Tigara Peninsula is a prominent point of land extending west for 13 miles (21 km) from the mouth of the Kukpuk River on the Cape Lisburne peninsula into the Chukchi Sea, about 320 miles (516 km) southwest of Utqiaġvik and 151 miles (244 km) northwest of Kotzebue,...
by CoastView | Oct 18, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Natural History
Gull Rock is a point of land on the south shore of Turnagain Arm on the Kenai Peninsula, about 18 miles (29 km) south-southeast of Anchorage and 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Hope, Alaska. The name was first published in 1943 by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey....
