by CoastView | Jan 16, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Best of 2021, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, January 2025, Land Use
Ankau Saltchucks are a series of interconnected tidal lagoons forming a complex estuary about 1.2 miles (1.9 km) across on the northwestern end of the Phipps Peninsula at the entrance to Yakutat Bay and the west shore of Monti Bay, about 215 miles (346 km) southeast...
by CoastView | Jan 15, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, California, Developments, Headlands, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Parks
Fort Cronkhite is situated on the Marin Headlands and is a historic U.S. Army facility that supported Battery Townsley, part of the coastal artillery defenses of San Francisco Bay during World War II, and now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, about 8...
by CoastView | Jan 8, 2025 | 2025, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Parks, Shipwrecks
Tomales Point is a headland forming the northern tip of Point Reyes Peninsula within the Point Reyes National Seashore, about 45 miles (72 km) northwest of San Francisco and 7 miles (11 km) south-southeast of Bodega Bay, California. Tomales Point and the Point Reyes...
by CoastView | Jan 2, 2025 | 2025, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Headlands, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Lighthouses
Point Arguello is a prominent headland and the site of Vandenberg Space Launch Complex, as well as a historical cattle ranch, lighthouse station, and a Loran station, about 55 miles (89 km) west-northwest of Santa Barbara and 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Lompoc,...
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...
