by CoastView | Jul 26, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Islands, Lighthouses, Parks, Shipwrecks
Discovery Island is part of a group of islands in Oak Bay off the southeastern tip of Vancouver Island at Sea Bird Point, about 17 miles (27 km) southeast of Sidney and 6.5 miles (10.5 km) east of downtown Victoria, British Columbia. Discovery Island is about 2.5...
by CoastView | Jul 25, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Islands, Parks, Rivers
Tuxedni Bay is an estuary that extends southeast for 14 miles (23 km) from the mouth of Tuxedni River to Cook Inlet at Chisik Island, about 59 miles (95 km) northwest of Homer and 57 miles (92 km) southwest of Kenai, Alaska. The Dena’ina name for the bay was...
by CoastView | Jul 24, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Haines.mp3 Haines is a small Southeast Alaska community on the Chilkat Peninsula, at the north end of Lynn Canal between Chilkat Inlet and Chilkoot Inlet, about 75 miles (121 km)...
by CoastView | Jul 23, 2024 | 2024, California, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical
Bodega Head is a granitic promontory at the north end of Bodega Bay in Sonoma County, approximately 40 miles (64 km) northwest of San Francisco and 20 miles (32 km) west of Santa Rosa, California. The headland and Doran Beach form a natural harbor protected from open...
by CoastView | Jul 22, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Shipwrecks
The remains of SS Islander and the salvage barge Griffson are in Green Cove on Stephens Passage, a waterway that separates the north shore of the Glass Peninsula on Admiralty Island from Douglas Island, about 86 miles (138 km) northeast of Sitka and 12 miles (19 km)...
