by CoastView | Oct 18, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Washington
Cutts Island is a state park about 300 feet (91 m) wide and 600 feet (183 m) long, with a distinctive sand spit extending 2,000 feet (610 m) north that nearly reaches Raft Island, and is situated about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) off the eastern shore of Carr Inlet in South...
by CoastView | Oct 15, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
McArthur River starts at the terminus of McArthur Glacier in the Neacola Mountains and flows southeast for about 9 miles (15 km) to the confluence of the outflow from the Blockade Glacier in the Chigmit Mountains, and then continues for another 21 miles (34 km)...
by CoastView | Oct 14, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Cape Etolin is a point of land extending about 4.6 miles (7.4 km) north into the Bering Sea on the northern coast of Nunivak Island, about 50 miles (80 km) west of Nightmute on the mainland and 4 miles (6 km) north-northeast of Mekoryuk, Alaska. The cape was named...
by CoastView | Oct 11, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Washington
Friday Harbor Laboratories is a marine biology field station of the University of Washington situated on the northern shore of Friday Harbor, an embayment on the eastern coast of San Juan Island, about 72 miles (116 km) northwest of Seattle and 18 miles (29 km) west...
by CoastView | Oct 10, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Chugachik Island is situated about 800 feet (244 m) off the eastern shore and near the head of Kachemak Bay, between Bear Cove to the south and Martin River to the north, on the Kenai Peninsula in Kachemak Bay State Park, about 18 miles (29 km) northeast of Homer and...
by CoastView | Oct 6, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
Garcia River starts at an elevation of 856 feet (261 m) and flows generally northwest for 44 miles (71 km), draining a watershed of 92,160 acres (37,296 ha), and enters the Pacific Ocean north of Point Arena Lighthouse at Manchester State Park, about 34 miles (55 km)...
