by CoastView | Dec 1, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Islands, Shipwrecks
China Cove is a small embayment, about 1.7 miles (2.7 km) wide, on the southeast coast of Coronation Island, located between Chatham and Sumner Straits, 93 miles (150 km) south-southeast of Sitka and 106 miles (171 km) northwest of Ketchikan, Alaska. Coronation Island...
by CoastView | Nov 30, 2022 | 2022, California, Communities, Rivers
Big River flows for 42 miles (68 km) through the northern California Coast Range starting at an elevation of approximately 2,800 feet (865 m), draining a watershed of 181 square miles (46,880 ha) and entering the Pacific Ocean at Mendocino, California. From the river...
by CoastView | Nov 29, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Communities, Rivers
Chefornak is a small village, 16 miles (26 km) upriver from Etolin Strait on the Bering Sea, at the junction of the Keguk and Kinia Rivers, on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta about 93 miles (150 km) southwest of Bethel, Alaska. The village is surrounded by the Yukon Delta...
by CoastView | Nov 28, 2022 | 2022, Communities, Embayments, Oregon
Coast Guard Station Tillamook Bay is an active-duty U.S. Coast Guard facility located in Garibaldi on Tillamook Bay, 7.5 miles (12 km) northwest of the community of Tillamook, Oregon. The current station has been operating since 1942 and is a nationally recognized...
by CoastView | Nov 27, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Islands, Kachemak
Cohen Island is about 0.3 miles (0.5 km) across, located at the north entrance to Eldred Passage, on the eastern shore of Kachemak Bay, 8 miles (13 km) south of Homer, Alaska. The island was named by William Healey Dall, of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, for a...
by CoastView | Nov 26, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Embayments, Historical
Daykins Bay is on the southeastern shore of Nitinat Lake, approximately 7 miles (11 km) northeast of the outlet at Whyac and 6 miles (10 km) southwest from the Ditidaht village of Malachan, British Columbia. The lake is tidal and the bay was the site of the Malloch...
by CoastView | Nov 25, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Developments, Headlands
Oliktok Point is the eastern point of the entrance to Harrison Bay on the Beaufort Sea, about 16 miles (26 km) west of Beechey Point, 35 miles (56 km) northeast of Nuiqsut, and 35 miles (56 km) northwest of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. The Iñupiaq name was first reported by...
by CoastView | Nov 24, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Historical, Shipwrecks
Uyak Bay extends south-southeast for 40 miles (65 km) off Shelikof Strait on the northwest coast of Kodiak Island, 59 miles (95 km) west-southwest of the community of Kodiak, Alaska. The Alutiiq name was first recorded in 1805 as “Bay of Oohiack” by Yuri Feodorovich...
by CoastView | Nov 23, 2022 | 2022, California, Embayments, Parks
Abbotts Lagoon is a two-stage lagoon on the northwestern coast of the Point Reyes National Seashore, 9 miles (14.5 km) south-southeast of Tomales Point, 5.5 miles (8.9 km) west-northwest of Inverness, California. The upper lagoon is a freshwater impoundment that...
by CoastView | Nov 22, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Headlands, Lighthouses
Cape Decision is a headland on the southern end of Kuiu Island in Southeast Alaska, 105 miles (169 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 75 miles (121 km) southwest of Wrangell, Alaska. The cape was named in 1793 by Captain George Vancouver because here he decided the...
