by CoastView | Dec 19, 2022 | 2022, Best of 2022, Coastal Features, Communities, December 2022, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Sea Caves
Depoe Bay is a community located on a small natural embayment with the same name, 11 miles (18 km) south-southwest of Lincoln City, and 12 miles (19 km) north of Newport, Oregon. The harbor is only 6 acres (2.4 ha) and is connected to the sea by a narrow chasm. Depoe...
by CoastView | Jun 13, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Parks, Sea Caves
Devils Punchbowl is a collapsed sea cave orĀ littoral sinkhole located on a headland in Devils Punchbowl State Natural Area at the community of Otter Rock, about 8 miles (13 km) north of Newport and 5 miles (8 km) south of Depoe Bay, Oregon. Devils Punchbowl is...
by CoastView | Sep 17, 2021 | 2021, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Oregon, Sea Caves
Sea Lion Caves are a connected system of sea caves and caverns open to the Pacific Ocean at Sea Lion Point, about 36 miles (58 km) south of Newport and 11 miles (18 km) north of Florence, Oregon. The cave system extends for 1315 feet (401 m) and is the longest in the...
by CoastView | Jul 28, 2021 | 2021, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Mines, Parks, Sea Caves, Shipwrecks
Helm Point is a prominent headland at the southern tip of Coronation Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, between Chatham and Sumner Straits, about 94 miles (151 km) south-southeast of Sitka and 86 miles (138 km) southwest of Wrangell, Alaska. The...
by CoastView | Jul 22, 2021 | 2021, California, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Lighthouses, Sea Caves
Point Arena is a narrow headland about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) long with a historical lighthouse that marks a significant change in the orientation of the Mendocino Coast, about 34 miles (55 km) south of Fort Bragg and 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of the community of Point...
by CoastView | Mar 11, 2021 | 2021, California, Coastal Features, Parks, Sea Caves
Devil’s Punchbowl is a sinkhole formed by a collapsed sea cave over 70 feet (21 m) deep and 100 feet (30 m) in diameter in Russian Gulch State Park, about 8 miles (13 km) south of Fort Bragg and 1.6 miles (2.6 km) north-northwest of Mendocino, California....