by CoastView | Jul 17, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Natural History, Rivers
Travers Creek flows generally west-southwest for about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from an unnamed lake on the Kenai Peninsula to the confluence with Troublesome Creek and then another 0.5 miles (0.8 km) through Mutnaia Gulch to the north shore of Kachemak Bay, about 3.5 miles...
by CoastView | Jul 16, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Parks
Brockton Point is a prominent peninsula in Stanley Park on the southern coast of Burrard Inlet that forms the north shore of Coal Harbour in the city of Vancouver, about 19 miles (30 km) north of Tsawwassen and 2.6 miles (4 km) southeast of West Vancouver, British...
by CoastView | Jul 15, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Rivers
Annex Creek drains a watershed on the south flank of Annex Ridge and flows generally southeast for 5 miles (8 km) through the Annex Lakes to the western shore of Taku Inlet, about 0.35 miles (0.6 km) southwest of the Annex Creek hydroelectric power facility and 12...
by CoastView | Jul 14, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Vassar Glacier flows southeast for 4.3 miles (7 km) from the eastern flank of Peak 8080 in the Chugach Mountains to the western shore of College Fjord near the confluence of Harvard Arm and Yale Arm and 2 miles (3.2 km) west of College Point, about 52 miles (83 km)...
by CoastView | Jul 13, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Ten Mile River drains a watershed of about 76,800 acres (31,080 ha) and flows generally southwest for 7 miles (11 km) to the Pacific Ocean at the northern border of MacKerricher State Park, about 9 miles (15 km) north-northeast of the Noyo River at Fort Bragg and 5.7...
by CoastView | Jul 12, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers, Waterfalls
Cascade Falls descends to Cascade Bay, an estuary that extends northwest for 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from Eaglek Bay in the Chugach National Forest of northern Prince William Sound, about 52 miles (84 km) west-southwest of Valdez and 32 miles (51.5 km) east-northeast of...
by CoastView | Jul 11, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon
Twin Rocks is a set of sea stacks situated about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) offshore and 1 mile (1.6 km) south-southwest of Rockaway Beach, a seaside community on a continuous strand that extends for 6 miles (10 km) from the mouth of the Nehalem River to the north and...
by CoastView | Jul 10, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
MacDonald Spit is a sediment depositional feature, about 1 mile (1.6 km) long, caused by longshore drift from west to east which forms the northwestern shore of Kasitsna Bay on the southern coast of Kachemak Bay, about 11 miles (18 km) south of Homer and 5 miles (8...
by CoastView | Jul 9, 2022 | 2022, Best of 2022, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Oona River starts from an elevation of about 2,000 feet (610 m) and flows north-northeast for 2 miles (3.2 km) and then southeast for 2 miles (3.2 km) to the community of Oona River on the eastern shore of Porcher Island at the mouth of the Skeena River, about 25...
by CoastView | Jul 8, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Alakanuk is a Yup’ik community surrounded by the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge and located at the eastern entrance of Alakanuk Pass, a major distributary channel of the Yukon River that leads generally west for 11 miles (18 km) to the Bering Sea, about...
