by CoastView | Dec 6, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Communities, December 2024, Developments, Freshwater, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
Muir Beach is a small community situated on the west coast of the Marin Peninsula overlooking the Pacific Ocean, with the adjacent sand beach in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, about 11 miles (18 km) northwest of San Francisco and 5 miles (8 km) southeast of...
by CoastView | Dec 5, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, December 2024, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Tenakee Springs is a community on the north shore of Tenakee Inlet, on the eastern shore of Chichagof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 46 miles (74 km) southwest of Juneau and 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Angoon, Alaska. Tenakee Springs...
by CoastView | Dec 4, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, December 2024, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Oregon, Parks
Crook Point is a prominent headland within the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge that includes 1.4 miles (2.3 km) of shoreline with sandy beaches and areas of rocky intertidal, offshore rocks, islets, and subtidal reefs with kelp beds, about 15 miles (24 km)...
by CoastView | Dec 3, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Communities, December 2024, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Parks
Verdant Cove is on the western shore of Aialik Bay in Kenai Fjords National Park at the northern entrance to Dora Passage, about 64 miles (103 km) east of Homer and 30 miles (48 km) south-southwest of Seward, Alaska. Verdant Cove is locally named after an adjacent...
by CoastView | Nov 30, 2024 | 2024, 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 27, 2024 | 2024, 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....
