by CoastView | Oct 22, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Hatcheries, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Whitman Creek starts from Blue Lake at an elevation of about 2,660 feet (811 m) on the south flank of Roy Jones Mountain on the southeast coast of Revillagigedo Island and flows generally southeast for 2.4 miles (4 km) to Whitman Lake, and then another 0.7 miles (1.1...
by CoastView | Oct 21, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Fossil Bluffs is on the northeast shore of Halleck Harbor near the northern entrance of Saginaw Bay on Kuiu Island, about 42 miles (68 km) southeast of Sitka and 17 miles (27 km) southwest of Kake, Alaska. The local name for the shoreline cliffs was recorded in 1948...
by CoastView | Oct 20, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Best of 2024, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Border Field State Park is within the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve situated adjacent to the urban neighborhood of Playas de Tijuana, Mexico, about 12 miles (19 km) south of San Diego and within the city limits of Imperial Beach, California. Playas...
by CoastView | Oct 19, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Natural History
Tiger Glacier starts at an elevation of 5,400 feet (1,646 m) in the Sargent Icefield on the Kenai Peninsula and flows east for 8 miles (13 km), covering an area of 15,040 acres (6,090 ha), to a tidewater terminus about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) wide at the head of Icy Bay in...
by CoastView | Oct 18, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Washington
Cutts Island is a state park about 300 feet (91 m) wide and 600 feet (183 m) long, with a distinctive sand spit extending 2,000 feet (610 m) north that nearly reaches Raft Island, and is situated about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) off the eastern shore of Carr Inlet in South...
by CoastView | Oct 17, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Best of 2022, Best of 2024, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
Portlock is a historical salmon cannery in Port Chatham, an embayment on the southern coast of the Kenai Peninsula, about 102 miles (164 km) north-northeast of Kodiak and 10 miles (16 km) south-southeast of Port Graham, Alaska. Portlock was named for Nathaniel...
by CoastView | Oct 16, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Canneries, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
The Canadian Fishing Company operates fish processing plants on Prince Rupert Harbour at Seal Cove and at George Hills Way, about 89 miles (143 km) southeast of Ketchikan and 72 miles (116 km) west-southwest of Terrace, British Columbia. George Hills Way is named...
by CoastView | Oct 15, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
McArthur River starts at the terminus of McArthur Glacier in the Neacola Mountains and flows southeast for about 9 miles (15 km) to the confluence of the outflow from the Blockade Glacier in the Chigmit Mountains, and then continues for another 21 miles (34 km)...
by CoastView | Oct 14, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Cape Etolin is a point of land extending about 4.6 miles (7.4 km) north into the Bering Sea on the northern coast of Nunivak Island, about 50 miles (80 km) west of Nightmute on the mainland and 4 miles (6 km) north-northeast of Mekoryuk, Alaska. The cape was named...
by CoastView | Oct 13, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Freshwater, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Gualala River flows into the Pacific Ocean at the community of Gualala where the river represents the combined flow of three tributaries that start from elevations near 1,800 feet (550 m) in the Coast Range and drain a watershed of 190,719 acres (77,181 ha), about 92...
