by CoastView | Jan 24, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Margerie Glacier starts at an elevation of 9,860 feet (3,005 m) on the international border of the United States and Canada between Mount Root to the north and Mount Fairweather to the south and flows generally east for 21 miles (34 km) to tidewater at Tarr Inlet in...
by CoastView | Jan 16, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Seward is a historic community at the base of Mount Marathon on the western shore of Resurrection Bay on the Kenai Peninsula and near the mouth of the Resurrection River, about 80 miles (129 km) west-northwest of Homer and 79 miles (127 km) south of Anchorage, Alaska....
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...
