by CoastView | Mar 4, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Embayments, Natural History
Port William is a historical salmon cannery in an embayment on the southern coast of Shuyak Island that extends 0.5 miles (0.8 km) north from Shuyak Strait, between Port Lawrence to the west and Daylight Harbor to the east, about 88 miles (142 km) southwest of Homer...
by CoastView | Mar 3, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Headlands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Mugu Rock is a distinctive feature at Point Mugu, a headland in Point Mugu State Park, situated between Thornhill Broome Beach to the east and Mugu Beach to the west in Santa Monica National Recreation Area, about 17 miles (27 km) west-northwest of Malibu, and 9 miles...
by CoastView | Mar 2, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Port Heiden is an embayment on the northern coast of the Alaska Peninsula that extends 9 miles (15 km) southeast from Bristol Bay between Strogonof Point and the community of Port Heiden, to the mouth of the Meshik River, about 147 miles (237 km) south of Dillingham...
by CoastView | Mar 1, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Historical, Land Use, Oregon, Parks, Shipwrecks
Peter Iredale was a British four-masted bark-rigged sailing ship with a length of 275 feet (84 m) that ran aground in 1906 and wrecked on Clatsop Spit, about 7 miles (11 km) west of Astoria and 2 miles ( km) southwest of Hammond, Oregon. The ship was named after the...
by CoastView | Feb 28, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Kachemak, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
Grewingk Creek drains a glaciated watershed of 29,138 acres (11,792 ha) and flows generally northwest for 3.5 miles (5.6 km) from the terminus lake of the retreating Grewingk Glacier to the southeastern shore of Kachemak Bay, about 24 miles (39 km) northeast of...
by CoastView | Feb 27, 2023 | 2023, Best of 2023, Best of 2024, British Columbia, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Mines, Natural History
Island Copper was an open pit mine located at the northern end of Vancouver Island on Rupert Inlet at the head of Quatsino Sound, about 4.6 miles (7.4 km) east of Coal Harbour and 8.5 miles (14 km) south of Port Hardy, British Columbia. The mine extracted a...
by CoastView | Feb 26, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Natural History, Parks
Lituya Bay is a fjord located in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve on the outer coast of Southeast Alaska, about 97 miles (156 km) southeast of Yakutat and 70 miles (113 km) west-northwest of Gustavus, Alaska. The Tlingit name for the bay means ‘lake within...
by CoastView | Feb 25, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Rivers
Terror Bay is on the northern coast of Kodiak Island and extends about 7 miles (11 km) south from Uganik Passage to the mouth of Terror River in Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, about 32 miles (52 km) east-northeast of Larsen Bay and 30 miles (48 km) west-southwest of...
by CoastView | Feb 24, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Best of 2023, California, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Shipwrecks
Tennessee Cove is an embayment with a sandy beach about 600 feet (180 m) long on the Pacific Ocean between Pirates Cove to the north and Rodeo Cove to the south in Golden Gate National Recreation Area about 10 miles (16 km) northwest of San Francisco and 3.6 miles...
by CoastView | Feb 23, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Best of 2023, Communities, Embayments, Islands, Land Use
Elfin Cove is an embayment that extends south from Cross Sound for 1 mile (1.6 km) and narrows to just over 100 feet (30 m) on the western shore of the Inian Peninsula at the northern end of Chichagof Island in Tongass National Forest, about 80 miles (129 km) west of...
