by CoastView | Feb 26, 2025 | 2025, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Climate Change, Coastal Features, February 2025, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Randall Island is part of the Dundas Archipelago, a group of islands in Hecate Strait on the west side of Chatham Sound between Brown and CaamaƱo Passages, about 74 miles (119 km) southeast of Ketchikan and 22 miles (35 km) west-northwest of Prince Rupert, British...
by CoastView | Feb 25, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, February 2025, Glaciers, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Shipwrecks
Ancon Rock is a reef located about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) off Point Gustavus on the eastern shore, at the entrance to Glacier Bay within Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 55 miles (89 km) west of Juneau and 8.5 miles (12 km) southwest of Gustavus, Alaska. The...
by CoastView | Feb 24, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, February 2025, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Barren Islands are the northernmost of the Kodiak Archipelago, located near Lower Cook Inlet, between Stevenson Entrance to the south and Kennedy Entrance to the north, about 80 miles (129 km) north of Kodiak and 56 miles (90 km) southwest of Homer, Alaska. The...
by CoastView | Feb 23, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, California, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, February 2025, Historical, Land Use
Westport is a historic timber export community on the Mendocino coast, where lumber schooners were loaded using long chutes built across nearshore rocks, about 83 miles (134 km) south-southeast of Eureka and 13 miles (21 km) north of Fort Bragg, California. The...
by CoastView | Feb 22, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Developments, February 2025, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Parks, Washington
Point Wilson is the site of a historic light station on the grounds of former Fort Worden, situated on a low, broad sand spit that extends northeast for 1.5 miles (0.8 km) from the northern end of the Quimper Peninsula into Admiralty Inlet, about 31 miles (50 km) east...
