by CoastView | Jun 13, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Point Pogibshi is a prominent flat-topped grassy headland with rocky sides about 50 feet (15 m) high on the southern shore of Kachemak Bay, about 20 miles (23 km) southwest of Homer, and 5 miles (8 km) north-northeast of Nanwalek, Alaska. The point is the site of a...
by CoastView | Jun 12, 2023 | 2023, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History, Parks, Shipwrecks
Cape Beale is the site of a historic lighthouse marking the southern entrance to Barkley Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, about 89 miles (143 km) west-northwest of Victoria and 4.7 miles (7.6 km) southwest of Bamfield,...
by CoastView | Jun 8, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Natural History, Parks
Hubbard Glacier originates from icefields at an elevation of around 11,000 feet (3,400 m) in the Centennial Range of the Saint Elias Mountains in Kluane National Park and Reserve and flows about 48 miles (77 km) to the Alaska border and then continues for another 28...
by CoastView | Jun 7, 2023 | 2023, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Headlands, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Parks
Cape Falcon is a headland situated between Short Sand Beach in Smugglers Cove to the south and Cove Beach to the north, and is part of Oswald West State Park and adjacent to Cape Falcon Marine Reserve, about 23 miles (37 km) north-northwest of Tillamook and 9 miles...
by CoastView | Jun 6, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
China Poot Creek starts at an elevation of about 3,500 feet (1,067 m) on the western flank of the Kenai Mountains and flows for 5.6 miles (9 km) to China Poot Lake, also called Leisure Lake, at an elevation of 168 feet (51 m), and then for another 0.9 miles (1.5 km)...
by CoastView | Jun 2, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Russian Gulch is a river that starts at an elevation of about 800 feet (244 m) on the northwestern flank of Hi Chute Ridge in the California Coast Ranges and flows generally northwest for 5 miles (8 km) to the Pacific Ocean, draining a watershed of 2,456 acres (994...
