by CoastView | Mar 24, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, March 2024, Natural History, Parks, Shipwrecks
Tugidak Island is the westernmost of the Trinity Island Group, which includes Sitkinak Island, and is part of the Kodiak Archipelago situated off the southern tip of Kodiak Island in the Gulf of Alaska, about 145 miles (233 km) east of Chignik and 124 miles (200 km)...
by CoastView | Mar 14, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Land Use, March 2024, Natural History, Shipwrecks, Washington
Tongue Point is a rocky ledge in the Strait of Juan de Fuca that projects from a peninsula forming the eastern shore of Crescent Bay on the north coast of the Olympic Peninsula and the site of a historical port and shipwreck, about 44 miles (71 km) east-southeast of...
by CoastView | Feb 21, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, February 2024, Historical, Islands, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Kaigani Point is at the southwest tip of Long Island between Kaigani Strait to the west and Cordova Bay to the east, about 100 miles (161 km) northwest of Prince Rupert and 56 miles (90 km) southwest of Ketchikan, Alaska. Long Island is directly south of Sukkwan...
by CoastView | Feb 19, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, February 2024, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Point Barrow is a spit that extends northeast from the mainland for 4 miles (6.4 km) into the Arctic Ocean forming Elson Lagoon to the southeast, about 150 miles (242 km) northwest of Nuiqsut and 9.8 miles (16 km) northeast of Utqiaġvik, Alaska. The point is a spit...
by CoastView | Feb 11, 2024 | 2024, California, Coastal Features, Developments, February 2024, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Pitkins Curve Bridge and Rock Shed are currently one of the most active landslide sites on the Big Sur Coast Highway situated just north of Limekiln State Park, about 45 miles (73 km) southeast of Monterey and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of Lucia, California. The area is...
by CoastView | Jan 4, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, January 2024, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Ipiutak is the Iñupiaq name for a prehistorical village that is now an archaeological site and National Historic Landmark on the Tigara Peninsula and the southern shore of Ipiutak Lagoon, about 133 miles (215 km) southwest of Point Lay and 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of...