by CoastView | Dec 21, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Headlands, Land Use, Natural History
Kingigin is an IƱupiat village, also known as Wales, situated at the mouth of Village Creek, on a series of ancient beach ridges separating Lopp Lagoon to the east from the Bering Strait to the west, on the Seward Peninsula at Cape Prince of Wales, about 73 miles (118...
by CoastView | Dec 11, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Headlands, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Gambell is a community on Saint Lawrence Island at Northwest Cape in the northern Bering Sea on a broad, shallow-water continental shelf that extends from western Alaska to northeastern Russia, about 196 miles (316 km) southwest of Nome, Alaska, and 62 miles (100 km)...
by CoastView | Nov 28, 2023 | 2023, Best of 2025, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Land Use, Natural History, Washington
Restoration Point is a conspicuous ledge on the southern end of Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound, about 7 miles (11 km) east-northeast of Bremerton and 7 miles (11 km) west-southwest of Seattle, Washington. The ledge is formed by an ancient wave-eroded platform that...
by CoastView | Nov 15, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Best of 2023, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Kustatan is a historical Dena’ina community on West Foreland, on the west side of Cook Inlet near the mouth of the Kustatan River, about 71 miles (115 km) southwest of Anchorage and 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Kenai, Alaska. The last syllable ‘tan’...
by CoastView | Nov 2, 2023 | 2026, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Natural History, November 2026
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Octopus-Point.wav Octopus Point is a headland on the western shore of Sansum Narrows, between Maple Bay on Vancouver Island and Burgoyne Bay on Salt Spring Island, about 27 miles (44 km)...
by CoastView | Oct 19, 2023 | 2026, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, November 2026
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Point-Hope.wav Tigara Peninsula is a prominent point of land extending west for 13 miles (21 km) from the mouth of the Kukpuk River on the Lisburne Peninsula into the Chukchi Sea, about 320...
