by CoastView | Nov 18, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Mines, November 2024
Pelican is a small community located on the east side of Lisianski Inlet on the north coast of Chichagof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 71 miles (114 km) north-northwest of Sitka and 17 miles (27 km) south of Elfin Cove, Alaska....
by CoastView | Nov 17, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, November 2024, Rivers, Shipwrecks
Fourth of July Creek originates from a series of unnamed glaciers and snowfields on the Resurrection Peninsula in the Chugach Mountains on the Kenai Peninsula, and flows generally west for 3.2 miles (5 km) to an alluvial fan where it joins Godwin River and then flows...
by CoastView | Nov 16, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, November 2024
Point San Luis is the site of a historic light station on a peninsula formed by San Luis Hill, a headland with an elevation of 708 feet (216 m), that provides a sheltered harbor for Port San Luis and the community of Avila Beach on San Luis Obispo Bay, about 118 miles...
by CoastView | Nov 15, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, November 2024, Rivers
Wrangell is a community situated at the mouth of the Stikine River on the north coast of Wrangell Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 83 miles (134 km) north-northwest of Ketchikan and 33 miles (53 km) southeast of Petersburg, Alaska. The...
by CoastView | Nov 14, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Freshwater, Historical, Islands, Land Use, November 2024, Parks, Rivers, Washington
La Push is the traditional community of the Quileute people situated at the mouth of the Quillayute River within the Quileute Indian Reservation and surrounded by the coastal strip of Olympic National Park, about 32 miles (51 km) south of Neah Bay and 12 miles (19 km)...
by CoastView | Nov 13, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Mines, November 2024, Parks
New Year Islands are at the mouth of Drier Bay in Knight Island Passage on the west coast of Knight Island in Prince William Sound, about 55 miles (89 km) east-northeast of Seward and 41 miles (66 km) southeast of Whittier, Alaska. The island cluster includes eight...
