by CoastView | Jul 26, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Shaktoolik is a small community now located on a spit forming Shaktoolik Bay, on the eastern shore of Norton Sound, about 56 miles (90 km) southeast of Golovin and 35 miles (56 km) north-northwest of Unalakleet, Alaska. Shaktoolik was the first Malemiut native...
by CoastView | Jul 25, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Embayments, Glaciers, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Tracy Arm is a fjord in the Coast Mountains of Southeast Alaska about 85 miles (137 km) northeast of Sitka and 42 miles (67.7 km) southeast of Juneau, Alaska. The Sawyer Glacier is at the head of the fjord which then trends southwest for 28 miles (45 km) to Holkham...
by CoastView | Jul 24, 2023 | 2023, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Parks
Chimney Rock is an islet that lies off the eastern headland of the Point Reyes Peninsula, connected only at low tide, about 3 miles (4.8 km) east of the Point Reyes Light and 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Inverness, California. The headland separates the western and...
by CoastView | Jul 23, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
The Sandman Reefs are a group of islets, reefs, and wave-washed rocks between the Pavlof Islands and Deer Island in the north, and extending south almost to the Sanak Islands, about 78 miles (126 km) southwest of Sand Point and 24 miles (39 km) south of King Cove,...
by CoastView | Jul 23, 2023 | 2023, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers, Washington
Peacock Spit is the northern portion of a mostly submerged sand bar at the mouth of the Columbia River, about 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Astoria and 2.5 miles (4 km) south of Ilwaco, Washington. Peacock Spit was named after the USS Peacock, an exploration ship that...
by CoastView | Jul 22, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Islands, Natural History
Burr Point is a headland on Augustine Volcano in Cook Inlet, about 108 miles (174 km) north-northwest of Kodiak and 69 miles (111 km) southwest of Homer, Alaska. Burr Point was reputedly named in 1914 by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey for the burr-like appearance...
by CoastView | Jul 21, 2023 | 2023, British Columbia, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use
Esquimalt Harbour is a sheltered embayment on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, about 21 miles (34 km) north of Port Angeles, Washington and 3 miles (4.8 km) west-northwest of downtown Victoria, British Columbia. The harbour is bounded by the communities of...
by CoastView | Jul 21, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Berg Bay is in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, and extends west for 4 miles (6.5 km) off Sitakaday Narrows near the mouth of Glacier Bay, about 38 miles (61 km) northwest of Hoonah, and 18 miles (29 km) northwest of Gustavus, Alaska. The name was first...
by CoastView | Jul 20, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Communities, Embayments, Natural History
Ekuk is a small village located on Ekuk Spit on the eastern shore of Nushagak Bay, a branch of Bristol Bay, about 16 miles (26 km) south-southwest of Dillingham and 1.3 (2.1 km) miles southwest of Clarks Point, Alaska. This was originally a Yup’ik settlement...
by CoastView | Jul 19, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Land Use, Natural History
Children’s Pool is one of the many gifts that philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps gave to the community of La Jolla, located about 13 miles (21 km) south of Encinitas and 11.4 miles (18 km) northwest of San Diego, California. In 1932, a seawall was built to...
