by CoastView | Mar 11, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, March 2024, Natural History, Washington
Toke Point is at the end of Tokeland Spit that projects southeast for 3 miles (5 km) from the northern shore of Willapa Bay, a large estuary formed by several streams, the largest being Willapa River, about 55 miles (89 km) southwest of Olympia and 15 miles (24 km)...
by CoastView | Mar 10, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, California, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, March 2024, Natural History
Stinson Beach is a community on Bolinas Bay developed on a crescent-shaped sand spit partially enclosing Bolinas Lagoon between Duxbury Point to the northwest and Rocky Point to the south, about 15 miles (24 km) northwest of San Francisco and 14 miles (23 km)...
by CoastView | Mar 8, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Land Use, March 2024, Natural History, Parks, Rivers, Washington
Hoh River starts from the terminus of the Hoh Glacier at an elevation of roughly 4,200 feet (1,280 m) on the northeast flank of Mount Olympus in Olympic National Park and flows generally west-southwest for 56 miles (90 km) draining a watershed of 191,360 acres (77,441...
by CoastView | Mar 3, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, March 2024, Natural History
Cordova Bay is a shallow bight and a community located on the eastern shore of the Saanich Peninsula in the municipality of Saanich, one of the 13 cities comprising the Greater Victoria Region on Vancouver Island, about 9 miles (14.5 km) south-southeast of Sidney and...
by CoastView | Feb 23, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Mad River starts in the Coast Range at an elevation of 4,845 ft (1,477 m) and flows generally northwest for 113 miles (182 km), draining a watershed of 318,080 acres (128,722 ha), and enters the Pacific Ocean about 12 miles (19 km) north of Eureka and 1.8 miles (3 km)...
by CoastView | Feb 19, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Point Barrow is a spit that extends northeast from the mainland for 4 miles (6.4 km) into the Arctic Ocean forming Elson Lagoon to the southeast, about 150 miles (242 km) northwest of Nuiqsut and 9.8 miles (16 km) northeast of Utqiaġvik, Alaska. The point is a spit...