by CoastView | Feb 2, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Mines, Rivers, Washington
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Slip-Point.mp3 Slip Point sits on the southern shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca at the eastern end of Clallam Bay on the Olympic Peninsula, about 39 miles (63 km) west-northwest of Port...
by CoastView | Jan 7, 2025 | 2025, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Washington
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Tatoosh-Island.mp3 Tatoosh Island, the largest in a small group offshore from Cape Flattery, hosts a historic light station on the Makah Reservation, about 34 miles (55 km) north of La Push...
by CoastView | Jan 2, 2025 | 2025, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Point-Arguello.mp3 Point Arguello is a prominent headland and the site of the Vandenberg Space Launch Complex, as well as a historical cattle ranch, lighthouse station, and Loran station,...
by CoastView | Dec 26, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Communities, 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, 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...
by CoastView | Nov 30, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, 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...