by CoastView | Apr 6, 2024 | 2024, April 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, April 2024, 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 3, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, April 2024, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Islands, Natural History
Devils Bay is a bight about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) wide on the north shore of Black Cape, a prominent headland on the northwest coast of Afognak Island in the Kodiak Island Archipelago, about 97 miles (156 km) southwest of Homer and 48 miles (77 km) northwest of the...
by CoastView | Apr 2, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, April 2024, 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 | Apr 1, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, April 2024, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Cascade Glacier starts from the western slope of Peak 7788 (2,374 m) in the Fairweather Range and flows generally west for 2.6 miles (4 km) to the head of Lituya Bay in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 97 miles (156 km) southeast of Yakutat and 67 miles...
by CoastView | Mar 30, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, March 2024, Natural History, Parks
Cowell Ranch Beach is at the southern end of Half Moon Bay near the ghost town of Purissima, and the northern boundary of the historical Cowell Ranch, about 38 miles (61 km) northwest of Santa Cruz and 2.8 miles (4.5 km) south of the community of Half Moon Bay,...