Beaches

Recent Articles

Diamond Point, Discovery Bay

Diamond Point is a community on the northeast tip of the Miller Peninsula which forms part of the Olympic Peninsula on the Strait of Juan de Fuca at the entrance to Discovery Bay, about 44 miles (71 km) northwest of Seattle and 7.5 miles (12 km) west-southwest of Port Townsend, Washington.

Wilder Ranch State Park, Natural Bridges State Marine Reserve

Wilder Ranch is a California State Park bordered by the Natural Bridges State Marine Reserve, located about 59 miles (95 km) south-southeast of San Francisco and 3 miles (5 km) southwest of Santa Cruz, California.

Lily Point, Boundary Bay

Lily Point Marine Reserve is a park located on Boundary Bay at the southeastern tip of Point Roberts, an exclave of the United States on the southern coast of the Tsawwassen Peninsula, about 22 miles (35 km) south-southeast of Vancouver and 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Bellingham, Washington.

More Articles

Sidney Spit, Sidney Island

Sidney Spit, Sidney Island

Sidney Island is one of the southern Gulf Islands located in Haro Strait, about 45 miles (73 km) south-southwest of Vancouver and 2.8 miles (4.5 km) east of Sidney, British Columbia.

Kaguyak Village, Kodiak Island

Kaguyak Village, Kodiak Island

Kaguyak is an abandoned Alutiiq village on the Aliulik Peninsula on the southeastern coast of Kodiak Island at the head of Kaguyak Bay, about 165 miles (266 km) southeast of King Salmon and 81 miles (131 km) southwest of the city of Kodiak, Alaska.

Nehalem Spit, Nehalem Bay State Park

Nehalem Spit, Nehalem Bay State Park

Nehalem Bay is separated from the Pacific Ocean by an along shore dune called Nehalem Spit in Nehalem Bay State Park, about 15 miles (25 km) north-northwest of Tillamook and 3.8 miles (6 km) south of Manzanita, Oregon.

Refuge Rock, Partition Cove

Refuge Rock, Partition Cove

Refuge Rock is in Partition Cove on the eastern shore of Sitkalidak Island, about 54 miles (87 km) southwest of Kodiak and 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Old Harbor, Alaska.

Teller, Port Clarence

Teller, Port Clarence

Teller is an Iñupiat village located at the base of a spit separating Port Clarence Bay from Grantley Harbor, about 59 miles (95 km) northwest of Nome and 6 miles (10 km) southeast of Brevig Mission, Alaska.

Nuchek, Constantine Harbor

Nuchek, Constantine Harbor

Nuchek is the site of a historical village and Russian trading post on Constantine Harbor at Port Etches on Hinchinbrook Island in Prince William Sound, about 56 miles (90 km) south-southwest of Valdez and 35 miles (56 km) southwest of Cordova, Alaska.

Ugadaga Bay, Unalaska Island

Ugadaga Bay, Unalaska Island

Ugadaga Bay is part of Beaver Inlet, one of the large embayments nearly bisecting Unalaska Island in the Eastern Aleutians, about 141 miles southwest of False Pass and 5.5 miles (9 km) southeast of Dutch Harbor, Alaska.

Griffin Point Fish Camp, Beaufort Sea

Griffin Point Fish Camp, Beaufort Sea

Griffin Point, also called Uqsruqtalik in the Iñupiat language, is the site of a traditional fish camp on the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, about 240 miles (387 km) west-northwest of Tuktoyuktuk and 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Kaktovik, Alaska.

Kaliakh River, Malaspina Coastal Plain

Kaliakh River, Malaspina Coastal Plain

Kaliakh River drains Hanna Lake and flows generally south through the Malaspina Coastal Plain for 24 miles (39 km) to the Gulf of Alaska, about 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Cape Yakataga and 106 miles (171 km) southeast of Cordova, Alaska.

Nestucca Bay, Pacific City

Nestucca Bay, Pacific City

Nestucca Bay is an estuary of about 1,000 acres (405 ha) formed by a sand spit located where the Nestucca River meets the Pacific Ocean, about 38 miles (61 km) west of McMinnville and at Pacific City, Oregon.

About the background graphic

This ‘warming stripe’ graphic is a visual representation of the change in global temperature from 1850 (top) to 2019 (bottom). Each stripe represents the average global temperature for one year. The average temperature from 1971-2000 is set as the boundary between blue and red. The colour scale goes from -0.7°C to +0.7°C. The data are from the UK Met Office HadCRUT4.6 dataset. 

Click here for more information about the #warmingstripes.

error: Content is protected !!