by CoastView | Apr 16, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers, Shipwrecks
The Hulks is a floating breakwater consisting of ship hulls anchored off the mouth of Powell River originally to protect a log pond for a pulp and paper mill, about 28 miles (45 km) southeast of Campbell River and 2 miles (3.2 km) north-northwest of the community of...
by CoastView | Apr 6, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Malibu Lagoon is an estuary formed by a spit on the north shore of Santa Monica Bay that partially encloses the mouth of Malibu Creek, about 26 miles (42 km) west of downtown Los Angeles and in the community of Malibu, California. The name ‘malibu’ is...
by CoastView | Apr 5, 2024 | Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Point Lay is a delta of the Kokolik River that flows into Kasegaluk Lagoon, a massive embayment separated from the Chukchi Sea by a series of unnamed barrier islands, about 143 miles (231 km) northeast of Point Hope and 96 miles (155 km) southwest of Wainwright,...
by CoastView | Apr 2, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
Munson Point is a peninsula formed by an ancient lateral moraine located on the northern shore of Kachemak Bay between Beluga Slough to the west and Mariner Lagoon to the east, about 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Seldovia and 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Homer, Alaska....
by CoastView | Mar 31, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Clover Point is a park of about 10 acres (4 ha) owned by the City of Victoria located between Ross Bay to the east and Finlayson Bay to the west at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, about 2.5 miles (4 km) southwest of Oak Bay and 1.6 miles (2.6 km) southeast of...
by CoastView | Mar 29, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Tahsis is a community on the west coast of Vancouver Island at the head of Tahsis Inlet which is the northern arm of Nootka Sound, about 50 miles (80 km) south-southeast of Port McNeill and 30 miles (48 km) west-northwest of Gold River, British Columbia. The name is...
