by CoastView | Nov 12, 2021 | 2021, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks
Whalers Cove is a bight on the northeastern shore of Killisnoo Island located in Chatham Strait along the central west coast of Admiralty Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 42 miles (68 km) northeast of Sitka and 2.5 miles (4 km) south of...
by CoastView | Nov 11, 2021 | 2021, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Parks
Point Montara Lighthouse is located in the coastal community of Montara, about 18 miles (29 km) south-southwest of San Francisco and 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Half Moon Bay, California. The name ‘Montara’ is a corruption of ‘Montoro’ that...
by CoastView | Nov 10, 2021 | 2021, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Freshwater, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Thoms Place is an embayment, and a widely distributed remote community, along Zimovia Strait on the southwest coast of Wrangell Island, about 62 miles (100 km) north-northwest of Ketchikan and 22 miles (35 km) south-southeast of Wrangell, Alaska. Zimovia Strait is a...
by CoastView | Nov 9, 2021 | 2021, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers, Washington
Hoh Head is a sandstone headland situated 2.3 miles (3.7 km) northwest of the Hoh River in Olympic National Park, about 30 miles (48 km) north-northwest of Taholah and 12 miles (19 km) southeast of La Push, Washington. The Hoh River starts at the terminus of the Hoh...
by CoastView | Nov 8, 2021 | 2021, Alaska, Beaches, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Glaciers, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
Cape Fairweather is a point of land created by an ancient terminal moraine at the base of the Fairweather Glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 131 miles (211 km) west-northwest of Juneau and 82 miles (132 km) southeast of Yakutat, Alaska....
by CoastView | Nov 7, 2021 | 2021, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Botanical Beach is located on San Juan Point in Botany Bay at the northern end of Juan de Fuca Provincial Park on the south coast of Vancouver Island, about 50 miles (80 km) west-northwest of Victoria and 2 miles (3 km) south-southwest of Port Renfrew, British...
