by CoastView | Apr 19, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Communities, Embayments, Hatcheries, Land Use, Natural History
Port Armstrong is an embayment on the southeast coast of Baranof Island, which extends west-southwest for 1.6 miles (2.6 km) from Point Eliza on Chatham Strait, and the site of a historical whaling station and present-day salmon hatchery, about 59 miles (95 km)...
by CoastView | Apr 18, 2023 | 2023, Headlands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History, Parks, Washington
North Head is a rocky promontory with a summit elevation of 300 feet (91 m) and the site of a historic lighthouse situated on Cape Disappointment at the mouth of the Columbia River between Baker Bay to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west, about 14 miles (23 km)...
by CoastView | Apr 17, 2023 | Alaska, Embayments, Islands, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
Flat Islands are situated about 0.8 miles (1.3 km) offshore and 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Point Bede on the Kenai Peninsula along the southern shore of Kachemak Bay in southern Cook Inlet, about 31 miles (50 km) south of Anchor Point and 3 miles (5 km) southwest of...
by CoastView | Apr 16, 2023 | 2023, British Columbia, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History
Kitimat is a designed community for employees of an aluminum smelter situated on the alluvial fan of the Kitimat River at the head of Douglas Channel, about 71 miles (115 km) east-southeast of Prince Rupert and 32 miles (52 km) south of Terrace, British Columbia. The...
by CoastView | Apr 15, 2023 | Acidification, Alaska, Beaches, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Point Sherman is the site of a historic lighthouse and now a navigational aid marking a shallow ledge that extends 1,600 feet (488 m) from the eastern shore of Lynn Canal and a reef called Sherman Rock situated 2,640 feet (805 m) to the southwest, about 46 miles (74...
by CoastView | Apr 14, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Communities, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History
Golovin is a community on the northern shore of Norton Sound in the Bering Sea and situated on a sand spit between Golovnin Lagoon to the north and Golovnin Bay to the south, about 71 miles (114 km) east of Nome and 24 miles (38 km) west-southwest of Elim, Alaska....
