by CoastView | Jan 8, 2023 | 2023, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Washington
Doe Bay is a small community on the southeastern shore of Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands of Puget Sound, about 7 miles (11.3 km) southeast of the community of Eastsound, and 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of Olga, Washington. The name “Orcas” is a...
by CoastView | Jan 7, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Kachemak, Natural History
Kasitsna Bay Laboratory is a marine research facility located on a shallow embayment about 1.2 miles (1.9 km) wide, about 12 miles (19 km) south of Homer and 6.3 miles (10 km) northeast of Seldovia, Alaska. The name is from the Dena’ina language and was originally...
by CoastView | Jan 6, 2023 | 2023, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Embayments, Natural History, Rivers
Kiltuish River originates in the Kitimat Ranges and flows about 16 miles (25 km) north to the Pacific Ocean at Kiltuish Inlet, an arm of Gardner Canal, about 103 miles (166 km) southeast of Prince Rupert and 51 miles (82 km) south of Kitimat, British Columbia. The...
by CoastView | Jan 5, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Developments, Land Use, Mines
Red Dog is a zinc and lead mine about 46 miles (74 km) inland from the Chukchi Sea coast and connected by road to an export terminal, about 62 miles (100 km) northwest of Kotzebue and 16 miles (26 km) southeast of Kivalina, Alaska. This metal sulfide mine is the...
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...
