by CoastView | Dec 26, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Communities, December 2024, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Parks
Point Piedras Blancas is a prominent headland and the site of a historic light station within the California Coastal National Monument, and surrounded by the Hearst San Simeon State Park, about 73 miles (117 km) south-southeast of Monterey and 6 miles (10 km)...
by CoastView | Dec 24, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, December 2024, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Parks, Washington
Turn Point is a headland with a historic light station on the northwest coast of Stuart Island overlooking Haro Strait to the west and Boundary Pass to the north, located on property that is part of the San Juan Islands National Monument, about 34 miles (55 km) west...
by CoastView | Dec 21, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, December 2024, Developments, Embayments, Freshwater, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Thorne Bay is a small community, and an estuary of the Thorne River on the eastern coast of Prince of Wales Island, the largest of approximately 1,100 islands interspersed by marine channels in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 55 miles (89 km)...
by CoastView | Dec 19, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Canneries, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, December 2024, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use
Cannery Row is the Monterey waterfront between San Carlos Beach and Cabrillo Beach, or between the Monterey Harbor Marina and the Monterey Bay Aquarium, where several historical Pacific sardine canneries once operated, about 25 miles (40 km) south-southeast of Santa...
by CoastView | Dec 16, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, December 2024, Developments, Embayments, Freshwater, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Sooke is a community on the western shore of Sooke Harbour, a narrow natural embayment separated from the Strait of Juan de Fuca by Whiffin Spit, about 35 miles (56 km) southwest of Port Renfrew and 17 miles (27 km) west-southwest of Victoria, British Columbia. Sooke...
by CoastView | Dec 14, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Communities, December 2024, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Mines, Rivers
Ketchikan is a coastal community and U.S. port of entry on the north shore of Tongass Narrows, on the southern coast of Revillagigedo Island, about 88 miles (142 km) northwest of Prince Rupert and 84 miles (135 km) south-southeast of Wrangell, Alaska. Tongass Narrows...
