by CoastView | Feb 25, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, February 2025, Glaciers, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Shipwrecks
Ancon Rock is a reef located about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) off Point Gustavus on the eastern shore, at the entrance to Glacier Bay within 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...
by CoastView | Feb 23, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, California, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, February 2025, Historical, Land Use
Westport is a historic 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 | Feb 22, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Developments, February 2025, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Parks, Washington
Point Wilson is the site of a historic light station on the grounds of former Fort Worden, situated on a low, broad sand spit that extends northeast for 1.5 miles (0.8 km) from the northern end of the Quimper Peninsula into Admiralty Inlet, about 31 miles (50 km) east...
by CoastView | Feb 15, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Embayments, February 2025, Headlands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Point Resistance is a headland on Drakes Bay, on the western shore of the Marin Peninsula, at the north end of Kelham Beach in the Phillip Burton Wilderness of Point Reyes National Seashore, about 27 miles (44 km) northwest of San Francisco and 3.5 miles (7 km)...
by CoastView | Feb 14, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, February 2025, Glaciers, Land Use
Cape Suckling is an area of wave eroded rocky reefs backed by dunes. Farther inland lie the Suckling Hills and the terminus of the Bering Glacier, about 150 miles (241 km) west-northwest of Yakutat and 73 miles (117 km) southeast of Cordova, Alaska. The cape and hills...
by CoastView | Feb 12, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, Communities, February 2025, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks, Washington
Ebey’s Landing is a beach on the southwest coast of Whidbey Island, on Admiralty Inlet in northern Puget Sound, about 45 miles (72 km) north-northwest of Seattle and 2 miles (3.2 km) south-southwest of Coupeville, Washington. The landing is named for Colonel...
