by CoastView | May 31, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Chatham is a historical salmon cannery and village on the west shore of Sitkoh Bay on Chichagof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 58 miles (93 km) south-southwest of Juneau and 13 miles (21 km) west of Angoon, Alaska. The cannery village...
by CoastView | May 30, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Washington
Westport is a community located on Point Chehalis, a peninsula between South Bay and the Pacific Ocean that partially encloses Grays Harbor from the south, about 53 miles (85 km) north-northwest of Astoria and 15 miles (24 km) west-southwest of Aberdeen, Washington....
by CoastView | May 29, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
Nanwalek is a community on English Bay, a small embayment on the eastern shore of lower Cook Inlet near the entrance to Kachemak Bay and at the southern entrance to Port Graham on the Kenai Peninsula, about 24 miles (38 km) southwest of Homer and 3.4 miles (5.5 km)...
by CoastView | May 28, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers, Shipwrecks
Darling River flows generally south for 6 miles (10 km) from heavily logged interior forests of southwestern Vancouver Island, through the coastal strip of the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve to the site of the Russian SS Uzbekistan shipwreck, about 31 miles (50 km)...
by CoastView | May 27, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use
Cordova is a community on the southeastern shore of Orca Inlet across from Hawkins Island in eastern Prince William Sound, about 100 miles (160 km) east-southeast of Whittier and 45 miles (72 km) south-southeast of Valdez, Alaska. Orca Inlet was originally named...
by CoastView | May 26, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Lonely was originally a Cold War Distant Early Warning facility until it was dismantled in 2018 and is now an unattended airstrip situated on the coast of the Beaufort Sea at Pitt Point between Drew Point on Smith Bay to the west and Cape Halkett on Harrison Bay to...
