by CoastView | May 26, 2023 | 2023, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History, Parks
Pigeon Point is a prominent headland and the site of a historic lighthouse, situated between Bolsa Point to the north and Franklin Point to the south, about 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Santa Cruz and 5 miles (8 km) south of Pescadero, California. The point is named...
by CoastView | May 25, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Glaciers, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Tyndall Glacier starts at an elevation of about 10,000 feet (3,050 m) in the Saint Elias Mountains near the Canadian border, between Mount Huxley to the west and Mount Saint Elias to the east, and flows generally south-southwest for 13 miles (21 km) to the head of...
by CoastView | May 24, 2023 | 2023, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Parks
South Slough is a tidal embayment designated as a National Estuarine Research Reserve that extends 6 miles (10 km) south from Coos Bay, which is an estuary of the Coos River, about 13 miles (21 km) north-northeast of Bandon and 4 miles (6.5 km) south of Charleston,...
by CoastView | May 23, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Embayments, Islands, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
Gull Island is about 633 feet (193 m) long and 93 feet (28 m) high and is situated about 0.6 miles (1 km) northwest of Moosehead Point near the entrance to Peterson Bay on the southeast shore of Kachemak Bay, and about 17 miles (27 km) northeast of Seldovia and 8...
by CoastView | May 22, 2023 | 2023, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Cassiar is a historic salmon cannery situated on the northern shoreline of Inverness Passage at the mouth of the Skeena River, about 67 miles (18 km) southwest of Terrace and 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. The name is from the...
by CoastView | May 21, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Saint Nicholas Chapel is a historic Russian Orthodox church situated on a bluff overlooking Ekuk Spit and the summer set-net community of Ekuk, on the eastern shore of Nushagak Bay, about 16 miles (26 km) south-southwest of Dillingham and 2 miles (3.2 km)...
by CoastView | May 20, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Cape Thompson is a headland on the Chukchi Sea coast near the site of Project Chariot, about 41 miles (66 km) northwest of Kivalina and about 31 miles (50 km) southeast of Point Hope, Alaska. Chariot is located at the mouth of Ogotoruk Creek between Sigrikpak Ridge to...
by CoastView | May 19, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History
Morro Rock is a volcanic plug with an elevation of 576 feet (176 m), connected to the mainland by a causeway that forms the entrance channel to Morro Bay, about 102 miles (164 km) southeast of Monterey and 21 miles (34 km) northwest of Pismo Beach, California. Morro...
by CoastView | May 18, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Point Franklin is the site of several whaling shipwrecks at the end of a barrier spit that extends 13 miles (21 km) northeast from the Arctic Coastal Plain, and together with the Seahorse Islands, separates Peard Bay from the Chukchi Sea, about 54 miles (87 km)...
by CoastView | May 17, 2023 | 2023, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon
Brookings is a community at the mouth of the Chetco River, which flows from the Southern Oregon Coast Range to the Pacific Ocean, about 21 miles (34 km) north-northwest of Crescent City, California and 26 miles (42 km) south-southeast of Gold Beach, Oregon. It was...
