by CoastView | Dec 16, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Nikiski Bay, formerly known as Nikishka Bay, is a bight in Upper Cook Inlet that extends southwest for 4 miles (6.5 km) from Boulder Point along the southeast shore of Gompertz Channel, 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the community of Nikiski and about 14 miles (22.6 km)...
by CoastView | Dec 14, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Estero de San Antonio is a small coastal lagoon formed by a sand bar that dams Stemple Creek, a stream that starts in the hills of Marin and Sonoma Counties and flows generally west to Bodega Bay near the mouth of Tomales Bay, 5.75 miles (9 km) southeast of the...
by CoastView | Dec 13, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Redoubt Volcano has a summit elevation of 10,197 feet (3,109 m) in the Aleutian Range on the Alaska Peninsula, and is located between the Drift River to the north and Crescent River to the south, about 9 miles (14.5 km) northeast of Crescent Lake and 52 miles (84 km)...
by CoastView | Dec 12, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Parks
Bayocean was a planned resort community founded in 1906 on a sand spit 4 miles (6.5 km) long and 0.5 miles (0.8 km) wide, that separates Tillamook Bay from the Pacific Ocean, about 63 miles (102 km) west of Portland and 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Tillamook, Oregon....
by CoastView | Dec 11, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Islands, Kachemak, Natural History
Hesketh Island is about 1.2 miles (1.9 km) long, located on the southern shore of Kachemak Bay, 9.5 miles (15 km) south of Homer and 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Seldovia, Alaska. In 1880, William Healey Dall named the island for Sir Thomas Hesketh who visited Cook...
by CoastView | Dec 9, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Ugamak Island is about 5.2 miles (8.4 km) long, located 75 miles (121 km) northeast of Unalaska and 36 miles (58 km) east of Akutan, Alaska. The island is the easternmost of the Krenitzin Island group, in the Fox Islands of the Eastern Aleutians. The Aleut name was...
