by CoastView | Jan 27, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Best of 2022, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Washington
Kalaloch is a resort area and ranger station on the west coast of the Olympic Peninsula at the mouth of Kalaloch Creek in Olympic National Park, about 24 miles (39 km) southeast of La Push and 19 miles (31 km) north-northwest of Taholah, Washington. The sandy beach at...
by CoastView | Jan 26, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Randall Island is part of the Dundas Archipelago, a group of islands located 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,...
by CoastView | Jan 25, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Shipwrecks
Ancon Rock is a reef about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) off Point Gustavus on the eastern shore and at the entrance to Glacier Bay, in 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 reef is...
by CoastView | Jan 24, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Kachemak, Land Use, Parks
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. Lower Cook...
by CoastView | Jan 23, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, California, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use
Westport is a historical 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 | Jan 22, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical
Bainbridge Glacier starts on Pinnacle Mountain at the edge of the Sargent Icefield on the Kenai Peninsula, and flows generally east for 10 miles (16 km) to Port Bainbridge, about 47 miles (76 km) south-southeast of Whittier and 36 miles (58 km) east of Seward, Alaska....
