by CoastView | Mar 17, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Viekoda Bay is a deglaciated fjord that extends southeast for 18 miles (29 km) from Shelikof Strait on the northwestern coast of Kodiak Island, about 134 miles (216 km) southwest of Homer and 26 miles (42 km) west-northwest of Kodiak, Alaska. The name is from the...
by CoastView | Mar 16, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Black’s Beach is the secluded southern section of Torrey Pines State Beach, which starts at the mouth of Los Peñasquitos Lagoon to the north and extends south for about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) to Scripps Beach, about 10 miles (16 km) south of Encinitas and 4 miles (6.5 km)...
by CoastView | Mar 14, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Washington
Lily Point Marine Reserve is a park located on Boundary Bay at the southeastern tip of Point Roberts, an exclave of the United States on the southern coast of the Tsawwassen Peninsula, about 22 miles (35 km) south-southeast of Vancouver and 30 miles (48 km) northwest...
by CoastView | Mar 8, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Best of 2023, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Old Chenega is a historical village at the head of Chenega Cove on the southern tip of Chenega Island in western Prince William Sound, which is part of the traditional territory of the Chugach Sugpiaq people, about 82 miles (132 km) west-southwest of Cordova and 40...
by CoastView | Mar 6, 2023 | 2023, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Headlands, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History, Parks
Cape Scott is a headland about 500 feet (150 m) high at the extreme northwestern point of Vancouver Island in Cape Scott Provincial Park, about 256 miles 412 km) south-southeast of Prince Rupert and 41 miles (66 km) west of Port Hardy, British Columbia. The promontory...
by CoastView | Mar 5, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Best of 2024, Communities, Developments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Diomede.mp3 Diomede is an Iñupiaq village on the west coast of Little Diomede Island, located less than 1 mile (1.6 km) from the International Date Line, 2.4 miles (3.9 km) east of Big Diomede...
