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,...
by CoastView | Oct 24, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, October 2024
Saltery Cove is an embayment that extends southeast for 1.5 miles (2.4 km) off Skowl Arm on the east coast of Prince of Wales Island, about 26 miles (42 km) west of Ketchikan and 10 miles (16 km) south-southeast of the Organized Village of Kasaan, Alaska. The entrance...
by CoastView | Oct 23, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, October 2024, Parks
Lighthouse Park was historically called Point Atkinson, a headland that together with Point Grey to the south, defines the entrance to Burrard Inlet, a fjord incising the lower mainland of British Columbia, about 33 miles (53 km) northeast of Nanaimo and 8 miles (13...
by CoastView | Oct 21, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines, October 2024, Parks, Waterfalls
Rudyerd Bay is a deglaciated fjord in the Coast Range of Southeast Alaska in Misty Fjords National Monument, about 89 miles (143 km) north-northwest of Prince Rupert and 39 miles (63 km) northeast of Ketchikan, Alaska. The fjord extends northeast for 11.5 miles (19...
by CoastView | Oct 20, 2024 | 2024, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, October 2024, Parks
The Golden Gate is a turbulent strait about 1 mile (1.6 km) wide, between Lime Point to the north and Fort Point to the south, that connects San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean, about 4 miles (6.4 km) west-northwest of downtown San Francisco and 2.2 miles (3.5 km)...
by CoastView | Oct 17, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, October 2024, Waterfalls
Beloit Glacier flows northeast for about 2 miles (3.2 km) from an unnamed ice field on the Kenai Peninsula to Blackstone Bay in Prince William Sound, about 86 miles (138 km) southwest of Valdez and 9 miles (15 km) south of Whittier, Alaska. Beloit Glacier is a...