by CoastView | Oct 6, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Oregon, Sea Caves
Sea Lion Caves are a connected system of sea caves and caverns open to the Pacific Ocean at Sea Lion Point, about 36 miles (58 km) south of Newport and 11 miles (18 km) north of Florence, Oregon. The cave system extends for 1315 feet (401 m) and is the longest in the...
by CoastView | Oct 1, 2024 | 2024, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses
Ballast Point is a peninsula that extends northwest for 0.44 miles (0.7 km) from the Point Loma Peninsula at the mouth of San Diego Bay, about 11 miles (18 km) south of La Jolla and 4 miles (6 km) southwest of downtown San Diego, California. The Spanish called the...
by CoastView | Sep 29, 2024 | 2024, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Parks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ThreeArchRocks.mp3 Three Arch Rocks are massive arched basalt sea stacks located south of Cape Meares and 0.5 miles (0.9 km) offshore from Maxwell Point at the community of Oceanside, about 8...
by CoastView | Sep 24, 2024 | 2024, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses
New Point Loma Light is a station at the southern tip of Point Loma, a peninsula with a prominent headland that forms the western shore of San Diego Bay, about 12 miles (19 km) south of La Jolla and 5.6 miles (9 km) southwest of downtown San Diego, California. The...
by CoastView | Sep 3, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Oregon, Parks
Yaquina Head is a prominent basalt headland, adjacent to the community of Agate Beach, rising over 100 feet (30 m) in elevation and extending 0.75 miles (1.2 km) into the Pacific Ocean, about 9 miles (15 km) south of Depoe Bay and 3 miles (5 km) north-northwest of...
by CoastView | Sep 2, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Shipwrecks
Chil Bo San No. 6 is a shipwreck on Spray Cape, a conspicuous headland on the west coast of Unalaska Island between Skan Bay to the north and Pumicestone Bay to the south, about 85 miles (137 km) northeast of Nikolski and 32 miles (52 km) southwest of Dutch Harbor,...
