by CoastView | Jun 6, 2022 | 2022, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Rivers, Washington
Fort Columbia is a historical military facility situated on Chinook Paint, that defended the entrance to the Columbia River from 1896 to 1947 and is now a state park, about 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Ilwaco and 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Astoria, Oregon. Chinook...
by CoastView | Jun 5, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
San Juan Cove is a small embayment on the north shore of Tutka Bay, a deglaciated fjord on the southern shore of Kachemak Bay in the Kenai Mountains in Kachemak Bay State Park, about 13 miles (21 km) south-southeast of Homer and 11 miles (18 km) east-northeast of...
by CoastView | Jun 4, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Crab River enters Devastation Channel near the entrance to Alan Reach of Gardner Canal, about 81 miles (130 km) southeast of Prince Rupert and 28 miles (45 km) south-southwest of Kitamaat, British Columbia. Devastation Channel lies between Hawkesbury Island and the...
by CoastView | May 28, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers, Shipwrecks
Darling River flows generally south for 6 miles (10 km) from heavily logged interior forests of southwestern Vancouver Island, through the coastal strip of the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve to the site of the Russian SS Uzbekistan shipwreck, about 31 miles (50 km)...
by CoastView | May 18, 2022 | 2022, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Parks
Point Diablo extends about 600 feet (183 m) south from the Marin Headlands roughly midway between Point Bonita to the west and Lime Point to the east, about 6 miles (10 km) northwest of San Francisco and 2.7 miles (4 km) south-southwest of Sausalito, California. The...
by CoastView | May 15, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Mines, Natural History, Parks, Rivers, Waterfalls
Falls Creek is on the Kenai Peninsula and flows generally south for 3.2 miles (5 km) to the northwestern shore of Kachemak Bay, in the Cottonwood Eastland Unit of Kachemak Bay State Park, about 17 miles (27 km) northeast of Homer and 2.5 miles (4 km) southwest of...
