by CoastView | Sep 22, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, Communities, Developments, Freshwater, Historical, Land Use, Oregon, Rivers
Drift Creek Landing is a community on the south bank of the Alsea River, opposite the confluence of Drift Creek, a major Coast Range tributary joining the Alsea about 3.4 miles (5.5 km) east of Waldport, about 16 miles (26 km) south-southeast of Newport and 9 miles...
by CoastView | Sep 21, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Three Saints Harbor is the location of a historical Russian settlement established in 1784 on Three Saints Bay on the east coast of Kodiak Island, about 63 miles (101 km) southwest of Kodiak and 29 miles (47 km) northeast of Akhiok, Alaska. The settlement was at the...
by CoastView | Sep 20, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Shipwrecks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/SSClarksdaleVictory.mp3 SS Clarksdale Victory lies wrecked off the west coast of Hippa Island, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Graham Island in the Haida Gwaii Archipelago, about 49 miles (79 km)...
by CoastView | Sep 19, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Rivers
Eagle Beach is at the mouth of Eagle River on the eastern shore of Favorite Channel, about 68 miles (109 km) south-southeast of Skagway and 22 miles (35 km) northwest of Juneau, Alaska. Favorite Channel is a waterway extending northwest for 16 miles (25 km) from...
by CoastView | Sep 18, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Best of 2025, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Bell Island is the site of a historic hot spring on Behm Canal, in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 49 miles (79 km) southeast of Wrangell and 40 miles (64 km) north-northeast of Ketchikan, Alaska. In August of 1793, Captain George Vancouver...
