by CoastView | Jun 13, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Point Pogibshi is a prominent flat-topped grassy headland with rocky sides about 50 feet (15 m) high on the southern shore of Kachemak Bay, about 20 miles (23 km) southwest of Homer, and 5 miles (8 km) north-northeast of Nanwalek, Alaska. The point is the site of a...
by CoastView | Jun 12, 2023 | 2023, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History, Parks, Shipwrecks
Cape Beale is the site of a historic lighthouse marking the southern entrance to Barkley Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, about 89 miles (143 km) west-northwest of Victoria and 4.7 miles (7.6 km) southwest of Bamfield,...
by CoastView | Jun 11, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History
Point Retreat is a headland with a historic lighthouse on the Mansfield Peninsula at the northern tip of Admiralty Island, between Lynn Canal to the west and Saginaw Channel of Stephens Passage to the east, about 60 miles (97 km) south-southeast of Haines and 20 miles...
by CoastView | Jun 10, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History
Drew Point is located at the eastern entrance to Smith Bay on the Beaufort Sea and is formed by rapidly eroding permafrost and ice wedges at the edge of the Arctic Coastal Plain, about 81 miles (131 km) northwest of Nuiqsut and 70 miles (113 km) southeast of...
by CoastView | Jun 9, 2023 | 2023, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Land Use, Natural History
Pillar Point is a prominent headland forming the northwestern shore of Half Moon Bay and providing partial protection for Pillar Point Harbor, and the site of Pillar Point Air Force Station and a famous surf location called Mavericks, about 20 miles (32 km)...
by CoastView | Jun 8, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Natural History, Parks
Hubbard Glacier originates from icefields at an elevation of around 11,000 feet (3,400 m) in the Centennial Range of the Saint Elias Mountains in Kluane National Park and Reserve and flows about 48 miles (77 km) to the Alaska border and then continues for another 28...
