by CoastView | Oct 27, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, October 2024, Parks
Point Sur Light Station is situated on a prominent volcanic rock just offshore from the Big Sur coast, and connected to the mainland by a sandy tombolo, about 60 miles (97 km) northwest of San Simeon and 20 miles (32 km) south of Monterey, California. Historically the...
by CoastView | Oct 26, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, October 2024
Biorka is an abandoned Unangan Aleut village on the northwest coast of Sedanka Island in the Fox Islands of the Eastern Aleutians, situated between Udamat Bay and Sisek Cove, about 27 miles (44 km) southwest of Akutan and 14 miles (23 km) east-southeast of Unalaska,...
by CoastView | Oct 25, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, October 2024, Washington
Gig Harbor is an embayment and community on the western shore of Puget Sound across from Point Defiance at the confluence of Tacoma Narrows, Dalco Passage, and Colvos Passage, about 21 miles (34 km) south-southwest of Seattle and 8.5 miles (14 km) northwest of Tacoma,...
by CoastView | Oct 24, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, October 2024
Saltery Cove is an embayment that extends southeast for 1.5 miles (2.4 km) off Skowl Arm on the east coast of Prince of Wales Island, about 26 miles (42 km) west of Ketchikan and 10 miles (16 km) south-southeast of the Organized Village of Kasaan, Alaska. The entrance...
by CoastView | Oct 23, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, October 2024, Parks
Lighthouse Park was historically called Point Atkinson, a headland that together with Point Grey to the south, defines the entrance to Burrard Inlet, a fjord incising the lower mainland of British Columbia, about 33 miles (53 km) northeast of Nanaimo and 8 miles (13...
