by CoastView | Jul 28, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Sheshalik is a spit about 6 miles (10 km) long consisting of accretionary beach ridges with some lagoons situated in Cape Krusenstern National Monument on Kotzebue Sound, about 40 miles (64 km) south of Noatak and 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Kotzebue, Alaska. The...
by CoastView | Jul 27, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Sycamore Creek flows generally west for about 2 miles (3.2 km) from the crest of Pfeiffer Ridge in the Los Padres National Forest through Sycamore Canyon to Pfeiffer Beach on the Big Sur coast, about 26 miles (42 km) south of Monterey and 21 miles (34 km) northwest of...
by CoastView | Jul 26, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Hatcheries, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Cannery Creek is the site of a salmon hatchery on the eastern shore of Unakwik Inlet in Prince William Sound and the Chugach National Forest, about 42 miles (68 km) northeast of Whittier and 41 miles (66 km) west-southwest of Valdez, Alaska. The local name is after a...
by CoastView | Jul 25, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Parks, Rivers
Beaver Creek starts at an elevation of about 1,400 feet (427 m) in the Oregon Coast Range and flows generally west for 16 miles (26 km) draining a watershed of 32,500 acres (13, 152 ha) and enters the Pacific Ocean at Ona Beach, about 9 miles (14.5 km) south of...
by CoastView | Jul 24, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Glaciers, Historical, Kachemak, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Grewingk Glacier starts in the Kenai Mountains and flows generally northwest for 11 miles (18 km) to a proglacial lake about 2 miles (3.2 km) long that is drained by Grewingk Creek that flows 3.5 miles (6 km) to the southern shore of Kachemak Bay, about 25 miles (40...
by CoastView | Jul 23, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Beaver Point is a prominent headland in Ruckle Provincial Park on the southeastern shore of Salt Spring Island in the Southern Gulf Islands and at the northwestern end of Swanson Channel, about 8 miles (13 km) north-northeast of Sidney and 4 miles (6 km) east of...
