by CoastView | Nov 29, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Freshwater, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Thoms Place is an embayment, and a widely distributed remote community, along Zimovia Strait on the southwest coast of Wrangell Island, about 62 miles (100 km) north-northwest of Ketchikan and 22 miles (35 km) south-southeast of Wrangell, Alaska. Zimovia Strait is a...
by CoastView | Nov 28, 2024 | 2024, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers, Washington
Hoh Head is a sandstone headland situated 2.3 miles (3.7 km) northwest of the Hoh River in Olympic National Park, about 30 miles (48 km) north-northwest of Taholah and 12 miles (19 km) southeast of La Push, Washington. The Hoh River starts at the terminus of the Hoh...
by CoastView | Nov 27, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Glaciers, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
Cape Fairweather is a point of land created by an ancient terminal moraine at the base of the Fairweather Glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 131 miles (211 km) west-northwest of Juneau and 82 miles (132 km) southeast of Yakutat, Alaska....
by CoastView | Nov 26, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Botanical Beach is located on San Juan Point in Botany Bay at the northern end of Juan de Fuca Provincial Park on the south coast of Vancouver Island, about 50 miles (80 km) west-northwest of Victoria and 2 miles (3 km) south-southwest of Port Renfrew, British...
by CoastView | Nov 23, 2024 | 2024, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, 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 21, 2024 | 2024, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Oregon, Parks
Cape Sebastian is a prominent headland with an elevation of about 640 feet (195 m) and is one of the 11 named capes along the Oregon coast, about 6.7 miles (10.8 km) south of Gold Beach and 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Pistol River, Oregon. The most conspicuous headlands...
