by CoastView | Nov 2, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Best of 2021, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Mines, November 2024, Parks, Washington
Point of Arches and the adjacent Shi Shi Beach represent a unique wilderness shoreline located at the western edge of the Olympic National Park, about 24 miles (39 km) north of La Push and 9 miles (15 km) south-southwest of Neah Bay, Washington. The archaeological...
by CoastView | Oct 30, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, October 2024, Parks
The New Eddystone Rock is a pillar of basalt 237 feet (72 m) high, situated in Misty Fjords National Monument and in the eastern arm of Behm Canal, about 87 miles (140 km) north-northwest of Prince Rupert and 32 miles (52 km) northeast of Ketchikan, Alaska....
by CoastView | Oct 29, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Freshwater, Historical, Land Use, October 2024
Egegik is a small Yup’ik village on the south bank of Egegik Bay on the eastern shore of Bristol Bay, about 69 miles (111 km) southeast of Dillingham and 37 miles (60 km) south-southwest of Naknek, Alaska. The name was first published in 1835 as Ougagouck by...
by CoastView | Oct 27, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, October 2024, Parks
Point Sur Light Station is situated on a prominent volcanic rock just offshore from the Big Sur coast, and connected to the mainland by a sandy tombolo, about 60 miles (97 km) northwest of San Simeon and 20 miles (32 km) south of Monterey, California. Historically the...
by CoastView | Oct 26, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, October 2024
Biorka is an abandoned Unangan Aleut village on the northwest coast of Sedanka Island in the Fox Islands of the Eastern Aleutians, situated between Udamat Bay and Sisek Cove, about 27 miles (44 km) southwest of Akutan and 14 miles (23 km) east-southeast of Unalaska,...
by CoastView | Oct 25, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, October 2024, Washington
Gig Harbor is an embayment and community on the western shore of Puget Sound across from Point Defiance at the confluence of Tacoma Narrows, Dalco Passage, and Colvos Passage, about 21 miles (34 km) south-southwest of Seattle and 8.5 miles (14 km) northwest of Tacoma,...
