by CoastView | May 18, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Point Franklin is the site of several whaling shipwrecks at the end of a barrier spit that extends 13 miles (21 km) northeast from the Arctic Coastal Plain, and together with the Seahorse Islands, separates Peard Bay from the Chukchi Sea, about 54 miles (87 km)...
by CoastView | May 17, 2023 | 2023, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon
Brookings is a community at the mouth of the Chetco River, which flows from the Southern Oregon Coast Range to the Pacific Ocean, about 21 miles (34 km) north-northwest of Crescent City, California and 26 miles (42 km) south-southeast of Gold Beach, Oregon. It was...
by CoastView | May 16, 2023 | 2023, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Montague Harbour is a provincial marine park located on Trincomali Channel on the southern coast of Galiano Island, one of the Gulf Islands in the Strait of Georgia, about 32 miles (52 km) north of Victoria and 30 miles (48 km) south-southwest of Vancouver, British...
by CoastView | May 14, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Natural History
Gilmour Point is a headland that forms the northern shore of Port Chalmers on the northwest coast of Montague Island in Prince William Sound, and an area of extensive eelgrass beds, about 62 miles (100 km) southeast of Whittier and 54 miles (87 km) southwest of...
by CoastView | May 13, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Glass Beach is situated in the northern section of Noyo Headlands Park in the community of Fort Bragg, which is between Pudding Creek to the north and Noyo River to the south, about 95 miles (153 km) south-southeast of Eureka and 10 miles (16 km) north of Mendocino,...
by CoastView | May 12, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Gordon is the site of a historical trading post situated near Demarcation Point, a 2.5 miles (4 km) long barrier spit separating Demarcation Bay to the south from the Beaufort Sea to the north, about 210 miles (338 km) northwest of Inuvik, Northwest Territories and 63...
