by CoastView | Nov 30, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, 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, 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 24, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Akhiok is the southernmost Alutiiq Sugpiat village on Kodiak Island, situated on Akhiok Bay which is on the western shore of Alitak Bay, about 167 miles (269 km) east-northeast of Chignik and 87 miles (140 km) southwest of Kodiak, Alaska. This location was settled in...
by CoastView | Nov 22, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Tigalda Island is 12 miles (19 km) long with an area of about 22,400 acres (9,065 ha) and is one of the Krenitzin Islands in the Eastern Aleutians, about 84 miles (135 km) southwest of False Pass and 28 miles (45 km) east of Akutan, Alaska. The island was called...
by CoastView | Nov 19, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Dodge Cove is a small community located on Digby Island, across from Kaien Island on the west side of Prince Rupert Harbour, about 88 miles (142 km) southeast of Ketchikan and 3 miles (5 km) southwest of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. Dodge Cove was named in 1907 by...
by CoastView | Nov 18, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Mines
Pelican is a small community located on the east side of Lisianski Inlet on the north coast of Chichagof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 71 miles (114 km) north-northwest of Sitka and 17 miles (27 km) south of Elfin Cove, Alaska....
