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 2, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, December 2024, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Shelter Cabins
York Island is situated at the entrance to Manzanita Cove in Wales Passage, which separates Wales Island from Pearse Island at the head of Dixon Entrance, about 63 miles (101 km) southeast of Ketchikan and 32 miles (51 km) north of Prince Rupert, British Columbia....
by CoastView | Nov 30, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, November 2024, 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 29, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Freshwater, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, November 2024, Parks, Rivers
Thoms Place is an embayment, and a widely distributed remote community, along Zimovia Strait on the southwest coast of Wrangell Island, about 62 miles (100 km) north-northwest of Ketchikan and 22 miles (35 km) south-southeast of Wrangell, Alaska. Zimovia Strait is a...
by CoastView | Nov 28, 2024 | 2024, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, November 2024, Parks, Rivers, Washington
Hoh Head is a sandstone headland situated 2.3 miles (3.7 km) northwest of the Hoh River in Olympic National Park, about 30 miles (48 km) north-northwest of Taholah and 12 miles (19 km) southeast of La Push, Washington. The Hoh River starts at the terminus of the Hoh...
