by CoastView | Dec 16, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Nikiski Bay, formerly known as Nikishka Bay, is a bight in Upper Cook Inlet that extends southwest for 4 miles (6.5 km) from Boulder Point along the southeast shore of Gompertz Channel, 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the community of Nikiski and about 14 miles (22.6 km)...
by CoastView | Dec 15, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Islands
Coco Harbor is an estuary that extends west for 3 miles (4.8 km) from Baldy Bay, off Tlevak Strait, on the east coast of Dall Island, Alaska. Baldy Bay was first reported by E.F. Dickins in 1907, and Coco Harbor was first published on charts in 1914 by U.S. Coast and...
by CoastView | Dec 14, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Estero de San Antonio is a small coastal lagoon formed by a sand bar that dams Stemple Creek, a stream that starts in the hills of Marin and Sonoma Counties and flows generally west to Bodega Bay near the mouth of Tomales Bay, 5.75 miles (9 km) southeast of the...
by CoastView | Dec 13, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Redoubt Volcano has an elevation of 10,197 feet (3,109 m) and is located in the Aleutian Range on the Alaska Peninsula, 9 miles (14.5 km) northeast of Crescent Lake and 52 miles (84 km) west of Kenai, Alaska. The name is a translation of the Russian name “Sopka...
by CoastView | Dec 12, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Parks
Bayocean was a planned resort community founded in 1906 on a sand spit 4 miles (6.5 km) long and 0.5 miles (0.8 km) wide, that separates Tillamook Bay from the Pacific Ocean, about 63 miles (102 km) west of Portland and 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Tillamook, Oregon....