by CoastView | Dec 25, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
Bootlegger Cove, also known as Little Jakolof Cove, is the local name for a small shallow embayment on the southeastern shore of Kachemak Bay, about 12 miles (19 km) south of Homer and 7.6 miles (12 km) northwest of Seldovia, Alaska. The cove is surrounded by private...
by CoastView | Dec 24, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use
Bamfield is a community located on Barkley Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island, 32 miles (52 km) southwest of Port Alberni and 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Ucluelet, British Columbia. The community is divided by Bamfield Inlet and surrounded by Crown Land,...
by CoastView | Dec 23, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines
The Ross Adams is a historical uranium-thorium mine in the Tongass National Forest, located on the southeastern slopes of Bokan Mountain near the southern end of Prince of Wales Island, approximately 33 miles (53 km) southeast of Hydaburg and 38 air miles (61 km)...
by CoastView | Dec 22, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use
Funter Bay is on the west coast of the Mansfield Peninsula on Admiralty Island, about 32 miles (52 km) southeast of Gustavus and 14 miles (23 km) southwest of Juneau, Alaska. The bay was named in 1883 by William Healey Dall, of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, for...
by CoastView | Dec 21, 2022 | 2022, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Rivers
Ocean Roar is a small group of buildings at the mouth of Walker Creek on Tomales Bay, and formerly a community on the North Pacific Coast Railroad, about 2.3 miles (3.7 km) southwest of Tomales and 16 miles (26 km) west of Petaluma, California. Walker Creek originates...
by CoastView | Dec 20, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Harrison Lagoon is about 0.5 miles (800 m) across, located on the west side of Port Wells in Prince William Sound, 66 miles (106 km) west-southwest of Valdez and 22 miles (35.5 km) northeast of Whittier, Alaska. The local name was first reported in 1916 by J.W. Bagley...
