by CoastView | Feb 16, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Developments, Freshwater, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Oso Flaco Creek drains a watershed of approximately 7,400 acres (2,995 ha) consisting mostly of agricultural land before forming Oso Flaco Lake, now part of the Oso Flaco Lake Natural Area in the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes, and then flows into the Pacific Ocean, and about...
by CoastView | Feb 12, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Dakavak Bay is about 3.4 miles (5.5 km) wide and situated on the southeastern coast of the Alaska Peninsula in Katmai National Park and Preserve where it extends north from Shelikof Strait for about 3 miles (5 km), about 87 miles (140 km) west-northwest of Kodiak and...
by CoastView | Feb 11, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Aialik Glacier flows southeast for about 8 miles (13 km) from the Harding Icefield in the Kenai Mountains to tidewater at Aialik Bay in Kenai Fjords National Park, about 66 miles (106 km) east-northeast of Homer and 16 miles (26 km) southwest of Seward, Alaska. The...
by CoastView | Feb 10, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History, Parks
Table Bluff is a promontory and coastal plateau less than 1 mile (1.6 km) wide with an elevation of 163 feet (50 m) located about 19 miles (31 km) north-northeast of Cape Mendocino at the base of South Spit that encloses the southern portion of Humboldt Bay, about 9...
by CoastView | Feb 8, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks, Washington
Friday Harbor is a community at the head of a protected embayment on the eastern coast of San Juan Island, the second-largest island after Orcas Island and most populous in the San Juan archipelago, about 18 miles (29 km) northeast of Victoria and 18 miles (29 km)...
by CoastView | Feb 5, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Cape Newenham is a massive headland on the eastern shore of the Bering Sea between Kuskokwim Bay to the north and Togiak Bay to the south, about 149 miles (240 km) south of Bethel and 69 miles (111 km) southwest of Togiak, Alaska. The south side of the promontory...
