by CoastView | Oct 5, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Freshwater, Islands, Waterfalls
The Weeping Wall is a cliff with water seeps on the northwest side of Okmok Volcano on the northeastern part of Umnak Island, one of the Fox Islands in the Eastern Aleutians, about 73 miles (117 km) west-southwest of Dutch Harbor and 49 miles (79 km) north-northeast...
by CoastView | Oct 4, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Swartz Bay is at the north end of the Saanich Peninsula on Vancouver Island and is the location of a BC Ferries terminal that provides the marine link connecting Highway 17 with the mainland, about 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Tsawwassen and 2.7 miles (4.3 km) north...
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 | Oct 1, 2024 | 2024, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses
Ballast Point is a peninsula that extends northwest for 0.44 miles (0.7 km) from the Point Loma Peninsula at the mouth of San Diego Bay, about 11 miles (18 km) south of La Jolla and 4 miles (6 km) southwest of downtown San Diego, California. The Spanish called the...
by CoastView | Sep 29, 2024 | 2024, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Parks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ThreeArchRocks.mp3 Three Arch Rocks are massive arched basalt sea stacks located south of Cape Meares and 0.5 miles (0.9 km) offshore from Maxwell Point at the community of Oceanside, about 8...
by CoastView | Sep 28, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks
Angoon is a historic Tlingit village located on an isthmus at the mouth of Kootznahoo Inlet on the eastern shore of Chatham Strait and the west coast of Admiralty Island, about 77 miles (124 km) northwest of Petersburg and 60 miles (97 km) southwest of Juneau, Alaska....
