by CoastView | Nov 30, 2022 | 2022, California, Communities, Rivers
Big River flows for 42 miles (68 km) through the northern California Coast Range starting at an elevation of approximately 2,800 feet (865 m), draining a watershed of 181 square miles (46,880 ha) and entering the Pacific Ocean at Mendocino, California. From the river...
by CoastView | Nov 29, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Communities, Rivers
Chefornak is a small village, 16 miles (26 km) upriver from Etolin Strait on the Bering Sea, at the junction of the Keguk and Kinia Rivers, on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta about 93 miles (150 km) southwest of Bethel, Alaska. The village is surrounded by the Yukon Delta...
by CoastView | Nov 28, 2022 | 2022, Best of 2020, Communities, Embayments, Oregon
Coast Guard Station Tillamook Bay is an active-duty U.S. Coast Guard facility located in Garibaldi on Tillamook Bay, 7.5 miles (12 km) northwest of the community of Tillamook, Oregon. The current station has been operating since 1942 and is a nationally recognized...
by CoastView | Nov 27, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Islands, Kachemak
Cohen Island is about 0.3 miles (0.5 km) across, located at the north entrance to Eldred Passage, on the eastern shore of Kachemak Bay, 8 miles (13 km) south of Homer, Alaska. The island was named by William Healey Dall, of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, for a...
by CoastView | Nov 26, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Embayments, Historical
Daykins Bay is on the southeastern shore of Nitinat Lake, approximately 7 miles (11 km) northeast of the outlet at Whyac and 6 miles (10 km) southwest from the Ditidaht village of Malachan, British Columbia. The lake is tidal and the bay was the site of the Malloch...
