by CoastView | Mar 6, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History
Chrome Island is located 0.15 miles (0.24 km) south of Boyle Point Provincial Park, on the southern tip of Denman Island, and is the site of a historic lighthouse that marks the southern entrance to Baynes Sound, about 72 miles (116 km) west-northwest of Vancouver and...
by CoastView | Mar 5, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Makarius Bay is on the southeastern coast of Amchitka Island, the southernmost of the Rat Islands group in the Aleutian Islands of Southwest Alaska, bounded by the Bering Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south, about 2500 miles (4024 km) north-northwest...
by CoastView | Mar 4, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Dinglestadt Glacier has two land terminating lobes that straddle a watershed divide in the Kenai Mountains, with a minor lobe descending southeast for 4 miles (6 km) from an elevation of roughly 3300 feet (1006 m) to a tidal delta on the western shore of McCarty...
by CoastView | Mar 3, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Cordova Bay is a shallow bight and a community located on the eastern shore of the Saanich Peninsula in the municipality of Saanich, one of the 13 cities comprising the Greater Victoria Region on Vancouver Island, about 9 miles (14.5 km) south-southeast of Sidney and...
by CoastView | Mar 2, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History
Langara is the northernmost island of the Haida Gwaii archipelago and the site of a historic light station that marks the southern boundary of Dixon Entrance, about 94 miles (151 km) southwest of Ketchikan, Alaska and 38 miles (61 km) west-northwest of Masset, British...
