by CoastView | Jun 4, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands
Ugadaga Bay is part of Beaver Inlet, one of the large embayments nearly bisecting Unalaska Island in the Eastern Aleutians, about 141 miles (227 km) southwest of False Pass and 5.5 miles (9 km) southeast of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. In 1888, Beaver Inlet was known as Sea...
by CoastView | Jun 3, 2024 | 2024, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Natural History, Rivers
Chignik River starts at Black Lake and flows south for about 8 miles to Chignik Lake, which is about 7 miles (11 km) long, and then the river continues flowing east for another 2 miles (3.2 km) to Chignik Lagoon, past the fish weir located about 12 miles (19 km)...
by CoastView | Jun 2, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical
Griffin Point, also called Uqsruqtalik in the IƱupiat language, is the site of a traditional fish camp on the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, about 240 miles (387 km) west-northwest of Tuktoyuktuk and 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Kaktovik,...
by CoastView | Jun 1, 2024 | 2024, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Oregon
Newport is a coastal community on Yaquina Bay on the central Oregon coast, about 39 miles (63 km) west of Corvallis and 23 miles (37 km) south of Lincoln City, Oregon. Yaquina Bay is an estuary, approximately 2,048 acres (829 ha) in area, with freshwater input from...
by CoastView | May 31, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Parks, Rivers
Katmai Bay is about 9 miles (14.5 km) across, located at the mouth of the Katmai River on the Shelikof Strait coast of the Alaska Peninsula in Katmai National Park and Preserve, about 93 miles (150 km) west-northwest of Kodiak and 77 miles (124 km) southeast of King...
by CoastView | May 30, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Communities, Developments, Embayments
Williamsport is a boat landing and seasonal community at the mouth of Williams Creek in the Chigmit Mountains on the west shore of Iliamna Bay on Cook Inlet, about 75 miles (121 km) west of Homer and 43 miles (70 km) east of Iliamna, Alaska. The community is located...
by CoastView | May 29, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Developments, Historical
Cape Yakataga is a point of land on the Gulf of Alaska, about 100 miles (161 km) northwest of Yakutat and 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of Yakataga, Alaska. The Tlingit name was first published by Captain Mikhail Tebenkov, of the Imperial Russian Navy, as “Cape...
by CoastView | May 28, 2024 | 2024, Communities, Oregon, Rivers
Necanicum River is approximately 21 miles (34 km) long draining a watershed of 84 square miles (21,756 ha), and forms the first estuary south of the Columbia River about 70 miles (113 km) northwest of Portland and 13 miles (21 km) southwest of Astoria at the coastal...
by CoastView | May 27, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Shipwrecks
Kaliakh River drains Hanna Lake and flows generally south through the Malaspina Coastal Plain for 24 miles (39 km) to the Gulf of Alaska, about 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Cape Yakataga and 106 miles (171 km) southeast of Cordova, Alaska. This may be the same stream...
by CoastView | May 26, 2024 | 2024, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Natural History, Washington
Oysterville is located in Willapa Bay on the Long Beach Peninsula, about 28 miles (45 km) north-northwest of Astoria and 17 miles (27 km) southwest of Raymond, Washington. The Long Beach Peninsula is a sand spit that separates Willapa Bay from the Pacific Ocean and is...
