by CoastView | Aug 11, 2021 | 2021, Alaska, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Mines
Hollis is a small community on Twelvemile Arm of Kasaan Bay, north of Cat Island, near the center of Prince of Wales Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 41 miles (66 km) west-northwest of Ketchikan and 20 miles (32 km) east of Craig, Alaska....
by CoastView | Aug 10, 2021 | 2021, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Parks
Bolinas Lagoon is a tidal estuary situated between the communities of Bolinas to the west and Stinson Beach to the east, about 35 miles (56 km) south-southeast of Bodega Bay and 17 miles (27 km) northwest of San Francisco, California. The lagoon opens to Bolinas Bay,...
by CoastView | Aug 9, 2021 | 2021, Alaska, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Shelter Cabins
Taku Harbor is a historical community and the site of an abandoned cannery, in a small embayment on the eastern shore of Stephens Passage near Taku Inlet, about 86 miles (138 km) northeast of Sitka and 22 miles (35 km) southeast of Juneau, Alaska. Taku Harbor is named...
by CoastView | Aug 8, 2021 | 2021, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Oregon
Battle Rock is a large sea stack connected to the mainland by a narrow rocky ridge, situated 500 feet (152 m) southeast of Fort Point at the head of Port Orford, a shallow embayment or bight, about 23 miles (37 km) north of Gold Beach and adjacent to the community of...
by CoastView | Aug 7, 2021 | 2021, Alaska, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Shipwrecks
Akun Bay is an embayment on the western coast of Akun Island, about 7 miles (11 km) wide at the entrance between Round Head to the south and Billings Head to the north and the site of the FV Lisa Jo shipwreck, about 94 miles (151 km) southwest of False Pass and 13...