by CoastView | Mar 27, 2023 | 2023, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, March 2023, Natural History
Lawyer Islands are located in Malacca Passage, part of the Canadian Inside Passage between Porcher Island to the south and the Tsimpsean Peninsula to the north and just off the mouth of the Skeena River, about 102 miles (165 km) southeast of Ketchikan and 13 miles (20...
by CoastView | Mar 26, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Developments, Headlands, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, March 2023
Cape Hinchinbrook is a headland with a light station on the southwestern point of Hinchinbrook Island in Prince William Sound, about 79 miles (127 km) southeast of Whittier and 37 miles (60 km) southwest of Cordova, Alaska. The cape was named in 1778 by Captain James...
by CoastView | Mar 25, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, March 2023, Mines, Natural History
Claim Point forms the western shore of Chrome Bay at the northern entrance to Port Chatham on the Kenai Peninsula, the site of a historical chromite mine, about 100 miles (162 km) north-northwest of Kodiak and 33 miles (53 km) south-southwest of Homer, Alaska. Port...
by CoastView | Mar 24, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Communities, Embayments, Land Use, March 2023, Natural History
Gwent Cove is a small community at the site of the historical Hidden Inlet fishing village and cannery located adjacent to and west of the entrance to Hidden Inlet, an estuary that trends generally north for 6 miles (9.7 km) from the western shore of Pearse Canal, 45...
by CoastView | Mar 23, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, March 2023, Natural History
Cluster Cone Rocks are at Bear Harbor, the site of a historical lumber wharf built over the rocky point that protects a small south-facing embayment with a sandy beach in Sinkyone Wilderness State Park on the Mendocino coast, about 21 miles (34 km) north-northwest of...
