by CoastView | Jan 14, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Washington
Titlow Beach is an urban neighborhood on the eastern shore of the Tacoma Narrows at the site of a historical fish camp used by the Puyallup and Nisqually tribes situated on a tidal wetland now called Titlow Lagoon, about 5.8 miles (9.4 km) south-southeast of Gig...
by CoastView | Jan 13, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Whyac is a historical Ditidaht First Nation village on the southern shore beside Nitinat Narrows, a tidal channel about 1.9 miles (3 km) long that connects Nitinat Lake to the Pacific Ocean on the north shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca on Vancouver Island, about 22...
by CoastView | Jan 7, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Glaciers, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Fourpeaked Glacier starts from the eastern flank of Fourpeaked Mountain with a summit elevation of 6771 feet (2,064 m) and flows generally east for 6 miles (10 km) to a proglacial lake about 2.5 miles (4 km) long that is drained by a river that flows another 0.8 miles...
by CoastView | Dec 28, 2023 | 2023, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Parks
The Marine Exchange Lookout Station is on Fort Miley at Lands End in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, about 6 miles (10 km) west of downtown San Francisco and 2.7 miles (4.4 km) southwest of the Presidio at the Golden Gate, California. After gold was...
by CoastView | Dec 25, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks
Christmas Island is the largest of several small reefs and islets on the western coastline and near the entrance of Security Bay on Kuiu Island, about 45 miles (72 km) south of Angoon and 18 miles (29 km) southwest of Kake, Alaska. Kuiu Island is in the Alexander...
by CoastView | Dec 22, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Espenberg is a historic Iñupiaq settlement and present-day fish camp at Cape Espenberg, a peninsula composed of a series of dune-covered beach ridges on the Chukchi Sea coast of the Seward Peninsula that extends eastward into Kotzebue Sound, about 63 miles (101 km)...