by CoastView | Nov 28, 2023 | 2023, Best of 2024, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Land Use, Natural History, Washington
Restoration Point is a conspicuous ledge on the southern end of Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound, about 7 miles (11 km) east-northeast of Bremerton and 7 miles (11 km) west-southwest of Seattle, Washington. The ledge is formed by an ancient wave-eroded platform that...
by CoastView | Aug 18, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Best of 2024, Embayments, Glaciers
Dawes Glacier starts near the Alaska-Canada boundary and flows northwest for 20 miles (32 km) to tidewater in Endicott Arm, about 100 miles (161 km) northeast of Sitka and 80 miles (129 km) southeast of Juneau, Alaska. The glacier was named in 1891 by the U.S. Coast...
by CoastView | Jun 21, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Best of 2024, Coastal Features, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Parks
Umpqua Beach is an off-highway vehicle staging area south of the Umpqua River mouth in the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area that extends for about 35 miles (56 km) along the coast from the Siuslaw River at Florence in the north to the Coos River at North Bend,...
by CoastView | Apr 29, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Best of 2024, Communities, Developments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Savoonga is a Siberian Yupik community situated on the north flank of the Kookooligit Mountains at Savoonga Point on the north coast of Saint Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, about 164 miles (265 km) southwest of Nome and 39 miles (63 km) east of Gambell, Alaska....
by CoastView | Mar 9, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Best of 2024, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use
Martins Beach is a public beach adjacent to a private gated community protected from erosion by a seawall, about 6 miles (10 km) south of the community of Half Moon Bay and 0.7 miles (1.1 km) southwest of Lobitos, California. Lobitos means ‘little wolves’...
by CoastView | Mar 5, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Best of 2024, Communities, Developments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Diomede is an Iñupiaq village situated on the west coast of Little Diomede Island, less than 1 mile (1.6 km) from the International Date Line and 2.4 miles (3.9 km) east from the Russian island of Big Diomede, about 194 miles (312 km) southwest of Kotzebue and 27...
