by CoastView | Oct 8, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses
Point Vicente is on the Palos Verdes Peninsula between Long Point to the southeast and Resort Point to the northwest, about 20 miles (32 km) south-southeast of Santa Monica and 12.5 miles (20 km) west of Long Beach, California. The Palos Verdes Peninsula is the most...
by CoastView | Oct 6, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Oregon, Sea Caves
Sea Lion Caves are a connected system of sea caves and caverns open to the Pacific Ocean at Sea Lion Point, about 36 miles (58 km) south of Newport and 11 miles (18 km) north of Florence, Oregon. The cave system extends for 1315 feet (401 m) and is the longest in the...
by CoastView | Oct 2, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Natural History
Cooper Island is an Arctic barrier island and one of the Plover Islands on Elson Lagoon on the Beaufort Sea coast, about 129 miles (208 km) northwest of Nuiqsut and 24 miles (39 km) east of Utqiaġvik, Alaska. The Iñupiat name for the island is Lglurak, generally...
by CoastView | Sep 30, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines
Tatitlek is a small Chugach Alutiiq community located on the northeastern shore of Tatitlek Narrows across from Bligh Island and at the mouth of Boulder Bay on the eastern shore of Prince William Sound, about 24 miles (38 km) southwest of Valdez and 39 miles (63 km)...
by CoastView | Sep 25, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Freshwater, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
Grand Plateau Glacier starts on the north flank of Mount Fairweather in the Fairweather Range of the Saint Elias Mountains and flows generally northwest for 19 miles (31 km) where it splits into two terminal lobes, with the southern lobe flowing 6 miles (10 km) to...
by CoastView | Sep 22, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, Communities, Developments, Freshwater, Historical, Land Use, Oregon, Rivers
Drift Creek Landing is a community on the south bank of the Alsea River, opposite the confluence of Drift Creek, a major Coast Range tributary joining the Alsea about 3.4 miles (5.5 km) east of Waldport, about 16 miles (26 km) south-southeast of Newport and 9 miles...
