by CoastView | Sep 5, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, California, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Rivers
Soquel Creek runs through Capitola, a community adjacent to Santa Cruz on the north coast of Monterey Bay, about 75 miles (120 km) south of San Francisco and 26 miles (42 km) north of Monterey, California. Soquel Creek has a drainage area of about 25,600 acres (10,360...
by CoastView | Sep 3, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Oregon, Parks
Yaquina Head is a prominent basalt headland, adjacent to the community of Agate Beach, rising over 100 feet (30 m) in elevation and extending 0.75 miles (1.2 km) into the Pacific Ocean, about 9 miles (15 km) south of Depoe Bay and 3 miles (5 km) north-northwest of...
by CoastView | Aug 27, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Oregon
Battle Rock is a large sea stack connected to the mainland by a narrow rocky ridge, situated 500 feet (152 m) southeast of Fort Point at the head of Port Orford, a shallow embayment or bight, about 23 miles (37 km) north of Gold Beach and adjacent to the community of...
by CoastView | Aug 15, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Oregon, Parks, Rivers
Cape Kiwanda is a sandstone headland with an elevation of 240 feet (73 m), protected by a basalt island known as Haystack Rock lying 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the southwest, about 18 miles (29 km) south-southwest of Tillamook and 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of Pacific City,...
by CoastView | Aug 12, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Communities, Islands, Rivers
Tyonek is a historical Dena’ina Athabascan community situated on a bluff on the northwest shore of Cook Inlet, about 43 miles (69 km) west-southwest of Anchorage and 35 miles (56 km) north of Kenai, Alaska. The village name is derived from the word Tyone meaning...
by CoastView | Aug 8, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Oregon, Shipwrecks
Boiler Bay Intertidal Research Reserve is a rocky embayment 0.6 miles (1 km) wide between Government Point to the south and Rabbit Rock to the north, and an intertidal research reserve, about 9 miles (14.5 km) south of Lincoln City and 1.6 miles (2.6 km) north of...
