by CoastView | Feb 16, 2025 | 2025, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, February 2025, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History
West Ballenas Island is about 100 acres (40 ha) in the Gulf Islands and the site of a historic lighthouse in the Ballenas-Winchelsea Archipelago, an area proposed for a marine park of 12,108 acres (4900 ha), about 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Nanaimo and 7 miles (11...
by CoastView | Feb 15, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Embayments, February 2025, Headlands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Point Resistance is a headland on Drakes Bay at the north end of Kelham Beach in the Phillip Burton Wilderness of Point Reyes National Seashore and on the western shore of the Marin Peninsula, about 27 miles (44 km) northwest of San Francisco and 3.5 miles (7 km)...
by CoastView | Feb 14, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, February 2025, Glaciers, Land Use
Cape Suckling is an area of wave eroded rocky reefs backed by dunes and farther inland, the Suckling Hills and the terminus of the Bering Glacier, about 150 miles (241 km) west-northwest of Yakutat and 73 miles (117 km) southeast of Cordova, Alaska. The cape and hills...
by CoastView | Feb 13, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, February 2025, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Canoe Passage is a State of Alaska Marine Park of 2,507 acres (1,015 ha) that includes both shores of a small boat passage that trends northwest-southeast and bisects Hawkins Island, located in southeastern Prince William Sound, about 44 miles (71 km) south-southeast...
by CoastView | Feb 12, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, Communities, February 2025, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks, Washington
Ebey’s Landing is a strand on the southwest coast of Whidbey Island on Admiralty Inlet in northern Puget Sound, and the site of a historic pioneer homestead, about 45 miles (72 km) north-northwest of Seattle and 2 miles (3.2 km) south-southwest of Coupeville,...
by CoastView | Feb 11, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, February 2025, Headlands, Natural History
Cape Lewis is a promontory with a summit elevation of 1,222 feet (372 m) with steep sea cliffs located between Ukinyak Creek to the north and Kiliktakgot Creek to the south, 11 miles (18 km) south of Cape Lisburne on the Lisburne Peninsula, about 107 miles (172 km)...
