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 23, 2024 | 2024, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, November 2024, Parks
Fort Point is a promontory where a historic masonry fortification, and later the southern approach of the Golden Gate Bridge, were constructed on the south side of the Golden Gate at the entrance to San Francisco Bay, about 4 miles (6 km) west-northwest of downtown...
by CoastView | Nov 16, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, November 2024
Point San Luis is the site of a historic light station on a peninsula formed by San Luis Hill, a headland with an elevation of 708 feet (216 m), that provides a sheltered harbor for Port San Luis and the community of Avila Beach on San Luis Obispo Bay, about 118 miles...
by CoastView | Oct 27, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, October 2024, Parks
Point Sur Light Station is situated on a prominent volcanic rock just offshore from the Big Sur coast, and connected to the mainland by a sandy tombolo, about 60 miles (97 km) northwest of San Simeon and 20 miles (32 km) south of Monterey, California. Historically the...
by CoastView | Oct 25, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, October 2024, Washington
Gig Harbor is an embayment and community on the western shore of Puget Sound across from Point Defiance at the confluence of Tacoma Narrows, Dalco Passage, and Colvos Passage, about 21 miles (34 km) south-southwest of Seattle and 8.5 miles (14 km) northwest of Tacoma,...
by CoastView | Oct 23, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, October 2024, Parks
Lighthouse Park was historically called Point Atkinson, a headland that together with Point Grey to the south, defines the entrance to Burrard Inlet, a fjord incising the lower mainland of British Columbia, about 33 miles (53 km) northeast of Nanaimo and 8 miles (13...
