by CoastView | Jan 4, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers
Harriman Glacier is 8 miles (13 km) long, and trends northeast to its terminus at the head of Harriman Fjord, in Prince William Sound, about 74 miles (119 km) west-southwest of Valdez and 16 miles (26 km) northeast of Whittier, Alaska. It was named by members of the...
by CoastView | Jan 3, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Chadbourne Gulch is a small stream that flows to the Pacific Ocean at Blues Beach between Bell Point to the north and Bruhel Point to the south, about 12 miles (19 km) north of Fort Bragg and 1.8 miles (2.9 km) south of Westport, California. The stream drains a...
by CoastView | Jan 2, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Scammon Bay is a small community at the base of the Askinuk Mountains, on the left bank and about 1 mile (1.6 km) upstream from the mouth of the Kun River in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, about 147 miles (237 km) northwest of Bethel and 73 miles (118 km) southwest of...
by CoastView | Jan 1, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Natural History
Lancashire Rocks are a group of offshore rocks and reefs on the western edge of Neptune Bay along the eastern shore of Kachemak Bay, about 13 miles (21 km) northeast of Seldovia and 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Homer, Alaska. The reefs were named by William Healey...
by CoastView | Dec 31, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Embayments, Historical, Shipwrecks
The fishing vessel Norseman sank in June 1978 in Princess Royal Channel, about 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Butedale and 115 miles (185 km) southeast of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. Norseman was built in 1973 as a crabber/tender and was in transit to the Bering...
by CoastView | Dec 30, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
McLean Arm Bay is a narrow inlet that extends 6.5 miles (10.5 km) west from Clarence Strait, on the southeast coast of Prince of Wales Island, about 40 miles (65 km) southwest of Ketchikan and 40 miles (65 km) southeast of Hydaburg, Alaska. The inlet was named in 1885...
by CoastView | Dec 29, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Best of 2022, Biodiversity, Canneries, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Natural History
Snug Harbor is a historical cannery located along a bight on the west coast of Chisik Island, at the southern end of Tuxedni Channel, on the western shore of Cook Inlet, about 51 miles (82 km) northwest of Homer and 56 miles (90 km) southwest of Kenai, Alaska. Chisik...
by CoastView | Dec 28, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Headlands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Franklin Point is located in the Año Nuevo State Reserve, 7.3 miles (12 km) south-southeast of Pescadero and 22 miles (35 km) northwest of Santa Cruz, California. It is named after the clipper ship Sir John Franklin that which went aground here in dense fog in 1865....
by CoastView | Dec 27, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use
King Cove is a small community on the Alaska Peninsula located partially on a spit separating King Cove Bay and King Cove Lagoon, about 18 air miles (29 km) southeast of the village of Cold Bay, Alaska. King Cove Bay is 15 miles (24 km) across and lies between Cold...
by CoastView | Dec 26, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Best of 2022, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Shipwrecks, Washington
Minter is a community on the northwestern shore of Henderson Bay, at the head of Carr Inlet in South Puget Sound, about 24 miles (39 km) southwest of Seattle and 5.5 miles (9 km) northwest of Gig Harbor, Washington. In 1792, this area was first explored by Lieutenant...
