by CoastView | Dec 25, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks
Christmas Island is the largest of several small reefs and islets on the western coastline and near the entrance of Security Bay on Kuiu Island, about 45 miles (72 km) south of Angoon and 18 miles (29 km) southwest of Kake, Alaska. Kuiu Island is in the Alexander...
by CoastView | Dec 22, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Espenberg is a historic Iñupiaq settlement and present-day fish camp at Cape Espenberg, a peninsula composed of a series of dune-covered beach ridges on the Chukchi Sea coast of the Seward Peninsula that extends eastward into Kotzebue Sound, about 63 miles (101 km)...
by CoastView | Dec 20, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Chenik was a historical community at the mouth of Chenik Creek, between Chenik Lake to the west and Chenik Head to the east, on the west shore of Kamishak Bay, about 98 miles (158 km) northeast of King Salmon and 98 miles (158 km) southwest of Homer, Alaska. The...
by CoastView | Dec 13, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Kaflia Bay is a funnel-shaped embayment that extends west for 4 miles (6.5 km) from the coast of Shelikof Strait between Cape Ugyak to the north and Cape Gull to the south in Katmai National Park and Preserve, about 93 miles (150 km) southeast of King Salmon and 75...
by CoastView | Dec 10, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Wilder Ranch is a California State Park bordered by the Natural Bridges State Marine Reserve, located about 59 miles (95 km) south-southeast of San Francisco and 3 miles (5 km) southwest of Santa Cruz, California. The ranch was formerly a dairy farm named for Delos D....
by CoastView | Dec 7, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Parks, Rivers
Whalen Island is located in Sand Lake which is the estuary of Sand Creek that starts at an elevation of 770 feet (235 m) in the Oregon Coast Range and flows generally south-southwest for 8 miles (13 km) to the Pacific Ocean draining a watershed of 10,880 acres (4,403...
