by CoastView | May 26, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Lonely was originally a Cold War Distant Early Warning facility until it was dismantled in 2018 and is now an unattended airstrip situated on the coast of the Beaufort Sea at Pitt Point between Drew Point on Smith Bay to the west and Cape Halkett on Harrison Bay to...
by CoastView | May 25, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use
Bodega Marine Laboratory is located on Bodega Head, a prominent peninsula that partially encloses Bodega Harbor on the northwestern shore of Bodega Bay, about 10 miles (16 km) south-southeast of Jenner and 1.7 miles (2.7 km) southwest of the community of Bodega Bay,...
by CoastView | May 24, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Rose Inlet is a sheltered embayment, and the site of a historical salmon cannery, that extends southwest for 2.5 miles (4 km) from Kaigani Strait on the east coast of Dall Island, about 116 miles (187 km) northwest of Prince Rupert and 60 miles (97 km) southwest of...
by CoastView | May 23, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers, Washington
Blyn is a small community located where Jimmycomelately Creek flows into Sequim Bay on the northern coast of the Olympic Peninsula, about 13 miles (21 km) southwest of Port Townsend and 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Sequim, Washington. Blyn was founded in 1891 by...
by CoastView | May 22, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Hatcheries, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use
Port Graham is a deglaciated fjord at the southern entrance to Kachemak Bay with an Alutiiq Sugpiat community with the same name, on the southwestern end of the Kenai Peninsula, about 23 miles (37 km) south-southwest of Homer and 3.4 miles (5.5 km) east of Nanwalek,...