by CoastView | Jan 23, 2023 | 2023, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Islands, Natural History
Dodd Narrows is at the northwest end of Mudge Island, separating Mudge Island from Vancouver Island, about 33 miles (53 km) southwest of Vancouver and 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Nanaimo, British Columbia. The Narrows is named after Charles Dodd, a ship captain and...
by CoastView | Jan 22, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Glaciers, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Red River starts from the terminus of Red Glacier on the eastern flank of Mount Iliamna and flows southeast for 7 miles (11.3 km) through Lake Clark National Park and Preserve to the western shore of Cook Inlet, about 126 miles (203 km) southwest of Anchorage and 48...
by CoastView | Jan 21, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Natural History, Parks
Kukak Bay is the site of a historical razor clam cannery on the western shore of Shelikof Strait, in Katmai National Park and Preserve, about 132 miles (212 km) southwest of Homer and 77 miles (124 km) northwest of Kodiak, Alaska. The bay extends southwest into the...
by CoastView | Jan 20, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Historical, Shipwrecks
The USS Milwaukee was a U.S. Navy cruiser that in 1917 was overcome by wind and waves close to shore and was beached at the community of Samoa on the northern peninsula of Humboldt Bay, about 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Arcata and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Eureka,...
by CoastView | Jan 19, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Kachemak, Natural History
Koyuktolik Bay, also known as Dogfish or Dog Salmon Bay, is about 2 miles (3.2 km) wide and located near the entrance to Kachemak Bay on the southeastern shore of Cook Inlet at the southwest tip of the Kenai Peninsula, about 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Homer and 15...
by CoastView | Jan 18, 2023 | 2023, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use
Gonzales Bay is on Vancouver Island and the northern shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, situated between Ross Bay to the west and McNeill Bay to the east, and is also the name of a neighborhood about 1.4 miles (2.3 km) southwest of Oak Bay and 2 miles (3.2 km)...
by CoastView | Jan 17, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Toksook Bay is a Yup’ik community on Nelson Island, in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, about 112 miles (181 km) west-southwest of Bethel and 13.5 miles (22 km) west-northwest of Nightmute, Alaska. Nelson Island was named in 1880 by Henry Gannett for Edward William Nelson,...
by CoastView | Jan 16, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Historical, Islands, Shipwrecks
Monks Lagoon is on Icon Bay, a bight about 1 mile (1.6 km) across, on the southeastern shore of Spruce Island, about 6.6 miles (10.6 km) north of Kodiak and 5.7 miles (9 km) south-southeast of Ouzinkie, Alaska. Spruce Island is northeast and across Narrow Strait from...
by CoastView | Jan 15, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Shipwrecks
The shipwreck of the SS Monte Carlo is occasionally exposed by shifting sands during the winter on Coronado Shores, a wide sandy beach also known as South Beach, on Coronado Island about 4.5 miles (7.3 km) east of Point Loma and 3.4 miles (5.5 km) south of San Diego,...
by CoastView | Jan 14, 2023 | 2023, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Rivers
Coquille River drains a watershed of 37,760 acres (15,281 ha) in the Coast Range between the Coos River to the north and the Rogue River to the south, and enters the Pacific about 20 miles (32 km) north of Cape Blanco at Bandon, Oregon. The river is about 36 miles (58...