by CoastView | Jan 21, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Natural History, Parks
Kukak Bay is the site of a historical razor clam cannery on the western shore of Shelikof Strait, in Katmai National Park and Preserve, about 132 miles (212 km) southwest of Homer and 77 miles (124 km) northwest of Kodiak, Alaska. The bay extends southwest into the...
by CoastView | Jan 20, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Historical, Shipwrecks
The USS Milwaukee was a U.S. Navy cruiser that in 1917 was overcome by wind and waves close to shore and was beached at the community of Samoa on the northern peninsula of Humboldt Bay, about 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Arcata and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Eureka,...
by CoastView | Jan 19, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Kachemak, Natural History
Koyuktolik Bay, also known as Dogfish or Dog Salmon Bay, is about 2 miles (3.2 km) wide and located near the entrance to Kachemak Bay on the southeastern shore of Cook Inlet at the southwest tip of the Kenai Peninsula, about 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Homer and 15...
by CoastView | Jan 18, 2023 | 2023, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use
Gonzales Bay is on Vancouver Island and the northern shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, situated between Ross Bay to the west and McNeill Bay to the east, and is also the name of a neighborhood about 1.4 miles (2.3 km) southwest of Oak Bay and 2 miles (3.2 km)...
by CoastView | Jan 17, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Toksook Bay is a Yup’ik community on Nelson Island, in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, about 112 miles (181 km) west-southwest of Bethel and 13.5 miles (22 km) west-northwest of Nightmute, Alaska. Nelson Island was named in 1880 by Henry Gannett for Edward William Nelson,...