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Willapa Bay is fairly shallow: more than half of its surface area lies in the intertidal zone, and half of the volume of water inside it enters and leaves with every tide. The bay is an estuary formed when the Long Beach Peninsula, a long sand spit from the Columbia River to the south, partially enclosed the estuaries of several smaller rivers.
Eventually a lifesaving station was built immediately to the east. In 1889 the area was renamed Willapa Bay after a local tribe. [4] The entrance to the bay is extremely unstable, and the sandy cape on which the lighthouse stood was steadily eroded away. By the late 1930s, the foundations of the building were affected, and it was abandoned in ...
Willapa National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge located on the shores of Willapa Bay in Washington, United States. It comprises 11,000 acres (45 km 2 ) of sand dunes, sand beaches, mudflats , grasslands , saltwater and freshwater marshes , and coniferous forest.
Willapa Bay is a large shallow body of water near the Pacific Ocean in southwestern Washington.For a number of years before modern roads were built in Pacific County, Washington, the bay was used as the means of travel around the county, by powered and unpowered craft, including several steamboats.
The river's lowermost course runs through part of the North Willapa Bay Wildlife Area Unit, [5] part of the Johns River Wildlife Area. [6] The mouth of the Cedar River merges with Willapa Bay in a tidally-influenced estuary. There is a 275 acre protected unit called the Cedar River Estuary, managed by Forterra.
Long Island is an uninhabited island lying in the southern part of Willapa Bay in Pacific County, Washington, United States. It is the site of the Willapa National Wildlife Refuge, part of the U.S. National Wildlife Refuge System. The island has a land area of 21.666 km 2 (8.365 sq mi).
The state park is bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and Willapa Bay to the east and shares a border with the Willapa National Wildlife Refuge. The park's Martha Jordan Birding Trail goes through Hines Marsh, wintering grounds for trumpeter swans. [2] Other park activities include hiking, boating, fishing, clamming, and beachcombing. [3]
The North River is a river, approximately 30 miles (48 km) long, in western Washington, in the United States.It empties into Willapa Bay, the first large estuary on the Washington coast north of the Columbia River.