Guides to the world’s kelp coastlines — the Great Southern Reef, Monterey Bay, Hokkaido, Norway, Patagonia — their ecology, seasons and stories.
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Pembrokeshire's jagged peninsula holds Britain's only full marine conservation zone, tide-swept kelp beds and island seas rich with birds and seals. A coastal atlas guide.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Península Valdés pairs Patagonia's most famous whale nursery with giant kelp beds at the edge of the steppe — plus one of the kelp world's sharpest invasion stories.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
A Coastal Atlas guide to Seward's Resurrection Bay — fjord walls, deep dock water, kelp fringes, wildlife and Alaska's most accessible diving.
Tom Okafor ·
Albania's Ionian shore is one of the Mediterranean's least-mapped algal coasts — karst reefs, Cystoseira canopies, and the single marine park of Karaburun-Sazan.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
A Coastal Atlas guide to Alaska's Kachemak Bay — nine-metre tides, famed seaweed diversity, otter-held kelp beds, kelp farms and how to visit from Homer.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Between Tasmania and mainland Australia, Bass Strait mixes two seas into some of the roughest, richest kelp country on Earth. An island-by-island guide.
Tom Okafor ·
Catalina Island is southern California's kelp capital — Casino Point, Farnsworth Bank, warm-water giants and a century of marine science under the canopy.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
An island-wide guide to Vancouver Island's kelp forests: bull kelp surf coasts, sea otter recovery, and the First Nations stewardship shaping their future.
Tom Okafor ·
Scotland's Moray Firth is famous for its resident bottlenose dolphins, but its quiet kelp fringes, salmon rivers and tide races reward a closer look. A coastal atlas guide.
Jack Callum ·
A ría-by-ría field guide to Galicia's drowned southern estuaries — mussel rafts, sea-spaghetti kelps and the Cíes Islands, fed by one of the Atlantic's great upwellings.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Explore Shikoku's Pacific coast, where the warm Kuroshio Current grazes the southern limit of Japan's kelp — and where the word 'isoyake' was born.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
A snorkeller's guide to Simon's Town and False Bay — Windmill Beach, Boulders, kelp-fringe marine life, shark-smart safety, seasons and gear for Cape Town's east side.
Tom Okafor ·
Bicheno's Governor Island marine reserve packs weedy seadragons, Red Velvetfish and golden kelp into easy boat dives off Tasmania's east coast. A diver's guide.
Tom Okafor ·
Australia has a second great reef — 8,000 km of temperate kelp forest across five states, more endemic than the Great Barrier Reef, and in serious trouble.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Langebaan Lagoon runs warm and shallow while the Atlantic outside stays cold and kelp-lined. A guide to South Africa's surprising West Coast shores.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
A guide to the Sulu Archipelago's seaweed coast — eucheumatoid farms, village economies, ice-ice disease, and how reef and farm share the shallows.
Naomi Reyes ·
A Coastal Atlas guide to Hokkaido: Rishiri, Rausu and Hidaka kombu beds, the beach-drying harvest culture, and the kelp road that fed Kyoto for centuries.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Northland is New Zealand's subtropical-temperate crossover — Ecklonia radiata reefs, kina barrens, the Poor Knights, and reserves that showed how reefs recover.
Tom Okafor ·
A coastal atlas guide to Esperance, Western Australia: kelp forests beneath the whitest beaches in the country, granite islands, seadragons and how to see them.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Guide to Port Stephens, NSW, where the Great Southern Reef meets the warm north — grey nurse sharks, sponge gardens, shore dives and a shifting kelp line.
Tom Okafor ·
Iwate's ria coast grows some of Japan's finest kelp in drowned valleys — and fifteen years on from the 2011 tsunami, its recovery tells a coastal story for our century.
Tom Okafor ·
From Knysna's estuary to Tsitsikamma's ancient sanctuary, the Garden Route is where warm Agulhas water meets cool kelp country. A Coastal Atlas guide.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
St Helena Bay is where the Benguela upwelling cell is born — kelp fringe, rock lobster, seabird islands, and the dynamics of a bay that feeds an entire region.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
A Coastal Atlas guide to Point Reyes: California's upwelling engine, fog-fed kelp, elephant seals and grey whales, and how wind builds a food web.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·