by CoastView | Aug 8, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Oregon, Shipwrecks
Boiler Bay Intertidal Research Reserve is a rocky embayment 0.6 miles (1 km) wide between Government Point to the south and Rabbit Rock to the north, and an intertidal research reserve, about 9 miles (14.5 km) south of Lincoln City and 1.6 miles (2.6 km) north of...
by CoastView | Aug 7, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands
Whaler Bay is located on the southeast end of Galiano Island adjacent to Sturdies Bay and across the island from Montague Harbour, about 28 miles (45 km) south-southwest of Vancouver and 18 miles (29 km) north of Sidney, British Columbia. Galiano Island is one of the...
by CoastView | Aug 6, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Islands
Stockdale Harbor is on the northwest coast of Montague Island in Prince William Sound, about 62 miles (100 km) southeast of Whittier and 54 miles (87 km) southwest of Cordova, Alaska. In 1776, Nathaniel Portlock joined HMS Discovery as master’s mate under the...
by CoastView | Aug 5, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Canneries, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Freshwater, Glaciers, Historical, Rivers
Situk River starts at Situk Lake and flows southwest for about 18 miles (29 km) through the Yakutat Forelands in Tongass National Forest to Johnson Slough on the Gulf of Alaska, about 200 miles (322 km) northwest of Juneau and 9 miles (15 km) southeast of Yakutat,...
by CoastView | Aug 4, 2024 | 2024, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Parks, Shipwrecks
Point Cabrillo is a sandstone headland marked with a lighthouse, between Point Arena and Cape Mendocino, about 6.7 miles (11 km) south of Fort Bragg and 1.3 miles (2 km) southwest of Caspar, California. The point was named in 1870 by the U.S. Geological Survey for the...
by CoastView | Aug 3, 2024 | 2024, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Oregon, Parks
Thor’s Well is at Cook’s Chasm, a fissure in the rock approximately 400 feet (122 m) long and 60 feet (18 m) wide between Captain Cook Point and Cape Perpetua, about 20 miles (32 km) north of Florence and 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Yachats, Oregon. The...
by CoastView | Aug 2, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Chemical Pollution, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Shipwrecks
Ocean Bay is on the southeast shore of Sitkalidak Island in the Kodiak Archipelago, about 56 miles (90 km) southwest of Kodiak and 9 miles (15 km) southeast of the village of Old Harbor, Alaska. The Kodiak Archipelago is in the western Gulf of Alaska and has about 32...
by CoastView | Aug 1, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Canneries, Communities, Historical, Rivers
Port Essington is an abandoned cannery town on the south bank of the Skeena River estuary at the confluence of the Ecstall River, about 61 miles (98 km) southwest of Terrace and 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. It is located on the...
by CoastView | Jul 31, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Glaciers, Islands, Land Use, Mines, Natural History, Rivers
The Copper River watershed drains about 24,000 square miles (62,000 sq km) in the Wrangell, Chugach, and Saint Elias mountains and the mainstem flows for about 290 miles (470 km) to the Gulf of Alaska where it creates a wide delta, about 195 miles west-northwest of...
by CoastView | Jul 30, 2024 | 2024, California, Communities, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Lighthouses
Trinidad Head is a prominent headland joined to the mainland by a narrow isthmus adjacent to the town of Trinidad and protecting Trinidad Bay, about 48 miles (77 km) south of Crescent City and 18 miles (29 km) north of Eureka, California. The bay is one of the few...
