by CoastView | Apr 26, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Shelter Cabins
Safety Sound is a lagoon along the Nome-Council Highway, formed by barrier beaches with elevations up to 14 feet (4.2 m), which extends 15 miles (24 km) along the north coast of Norton Sound between Cape Nome to the west and the Solomon River to the east, about 52...
by CoastView | Apr 25, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Coastal Features, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Parks
Siltcoos River begins at the outlet of Siltcoos Lake and meanders generally west for 3 miles (4.8 km) through the Oregon Coastal Dunes to the Pacific Ocean, about 8 miles (13 km) south of Florence and 13 miles (21 km) north of Reedsport, Oregon. A watershed of 43,520...
by CoastView | Apr 24, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
Beluga Slough is formed by Bishops Beach and is the tidal estuary of a historical stream called Palmer Creek that drained a watershed on the southern flank of Diamond Ridge on the northern shore of Kachemak Bay in the community of Homer, about 121 miles (195 km)...
by CoastView | Apr 23, 2023 | 2023, British Columbia, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Ganges Harbour is an embayment on the eastern coast of Salt Spring Island that extends 5 miles northwest from Captain Passage, about 35 miles (57 km) southwest of Vancouver, and 15 miles (24 km) north-northwest of Sidney, British Columbia. Ganges Harbour was...
by CoastView | Apr 22, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Land Use, Natural History
Unalakleet is an Iñupiaq-Yup’ik community built on an ancient beach ridge with an elevation of 7 feet (2 m) at the mouth of the Unalakleet River on the eastern coast of Norton Sound, about 145 miles (234 km) southeast of Nome, and 36 miles (58 km)...
by CoastView | Apr 21, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Chomly is the site of a historic cannery and settlement situated on the south shore of West Arm Cholmondeley Sound on Prince of Wales Island, 28 miles (45 km) west-southwest of Ketchikan and 20 miles (32 km) east-northeast of Hydaburg, Alaska. The cannery name was...
