by CoastView | Mar 14, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Washington
Lily Point Marine Reserve is a park located on Boundary Bay at the southeastern tip of Point Roberts, an exclave of the United States on the southern coast of the Tsawwassen Peninsula, about 22 miles (35 km) south-southeast of Vancouver and 30 miles (48 km) northwest...
by CoastView | Mar 12, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Land Use
Esquimalt Lagoon is formed by the Coburg Peninsula, a sand and gravel barrier spit 1.2 miles (1.9 km) long at Royal Roads on Vancouver Island, about 4.4 miles (7.3 km) west of Victoria in the city of Colwood, British Columbia. The word ‘Esquimalt’ is a...
by CoastView | Mar 11, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Mines
Kensington is a complex of underground mines and associated milling facilities on the southern flank of Lions Head Mountain in the Kakuhan Range between Lynn Canal to the west and Berners Bay to the east, about 47 miles (76 km) west-northwest of Juneau and 28 miles...
by CoastView | Mar 10, 2023 | Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands
Ship Cove is on the southern shore of Port Conclusion, an embayment at the southern tip of Baranof Island that extends south-southwest for 3 miles (4.8 km) from Chatham Strait, about 60 miles (97 km) south-southeast of Sitka and 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of Port...
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 8, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Best of 2023, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Old Chenega is a historical village at the head of Chenega Cove on the southern tip of Chenega Island in western Prince William Sound, which is part of the traditional territory of the Chugach Sugpiaq people, about 82 miles (132 km) west-southwest of Cordova and 40...
