by CoastView | Dec 2, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, December 2024, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Shelter Cabins
York Island is situated at the entrance to Manzanita Cove in Wales Passage, which separates Wales Island from Pearse Island at the head of Dixon Entrance, about 63 miles (101 km) southeast of Ketchikan and 32 miles (51 km) north of Prince Rupert, British Columbia....
by CoastView | Dec 1, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Communities, December 2024, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks
Whalers Cove is a bight on the northeastern shore of Killisnoo Island located in Chatham Strait along the central west coast of Admiralty Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 42 miles (68 km) northeast of Sitka and 2.5 miles (4 km) south of...
by CoastView | Nov 30, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, November 2024, Parks
Point Montara Lighthouse is located in the coastal community of Montara, about 18 miles (29 km) south-southwest of San Francisco and 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Half Moon Bay, California. The name ‘Montara’ is a corruption of ‘Montoro’ that...
by CoastView | Nov 29, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Freshwater, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, November 2024, Parks, Rivers
Thoms Place is an embayment, and a widely distributed remote community, along Zimovia Strait on the southwest coast of Wrangell Island, about 62 miles (100 km) north-northwest of Ketchikan and 22 miles (35 km) south-southeast of Wrangell, Alaska. Zimovia Strait is a...
by CoastView | Nov 28, 2024 | 2024, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, November 2024, Parks, Rivers, Washington
Hoh Head is a sandstone headland situated 2.3 miles (3.7 km) northwest of the Hoh River in Olympic National Park, about 30 miles (48 km) north-northwest of Taholah and 12 miles (19 km) southeast of La Push, Washington. The Hoh River starts at the terminus of the Hoh...
by CoastView | Nov 27, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Glaciers, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, November 2024, Parks, Rivers
Cape Fairweather is a point of land created by an ancient terminal moraine at the base of the Fairweather Glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 131 miles (211 km) west-northwest of Juneau and 82 miles (132 km) southeast of Yakutat, Alaska....
