Sledge Island, Bering Sea
by CoastView | Jan 5, 2022 | Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Islands, January 2022, Land Use, Parks, Shipwrecks
Sledge Island is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) across and situated in the Bering Sea, 5 miles (8 km) off the south coast of the Seward Peninsula, about 95 miles (153 km) southeast of Wales and 25 miles (40 km) west of Nome, Alaska. Sledge Island is like neighboring islands...
Winema Beach, Oretown
by CoastView | Dec 26, 2021 | Beaches, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, December 2021, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Oregon, Shipwrecks
Winema Beach is a strand adjacent to Winema Lake, originally the location of a townsite platted as Wi-Ne-Ma, near Oretown in southern Tillamook County, about 15 miles (24 km) north of Lincoln City and 4 miles (6 km) south of Pacific City, Oregon. The north coast of...
Tomales Point, Point Reyes National Seashore
by CoastView | Dec 20, 2021 | Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, December 2021, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Shipwrecks
Tomales Point is a headland forming the northern tip of Point Reyes Peninsula within the Point Reyes National Seashore, about 45 miles (72 km) northwest of San Francisco and 7 miles (11 km) south-southeast of Bodega Bay, California. Tomales Point and the Point Reyes...
Clo-oose, Cheewhat River
by CoastView | Dec 17, 2021 | Beaches, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, December 2021, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Rivers, Shipwrecks
Clo-oose is the site of an abandoned village of the Ditidaht First Nation on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, above a beach 0.25 miles (0.4 km) west of the Cheewhat River mouth, about 20 miles (32 km) west-northwest of Port Renfrew and 19 miles (31 km)...
La Honda Canyon, Point Pedernales
by CoastView | Nov 24, 2021 | California, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, November 2021, Shipwrecks
La Honda Canyon is a valley formed by Cañada Honda Creek that enters the Pacific Ocean 0.4 miles (0.6 km) north of Point Pedernales, about 56 miles (90 km) west-northwest of Santa Barbara and 11 miles (18 km) west-southwest of Lompoc, California. Cañada Honda Creek...
Fourth of July Creek, Resurrection Bay
by CoastView | Oct 29, 2021 | Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, Rivers, Shipwrecks
Fourth of July Creek originates from a series of unnamed glaciers and snowfields on the Resurrection Peninsula in the Chugach Mountains of the Kenai Peninsula, and flows generally west for 3.2 miles (5 km) to an alluvial fan where it joins Godwin River and then flows...
Rookery Falls, Passage Canal