by CoastView | Dec 13, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Redoubt Volcano has an elevation of 10,197 feet (3,109 m) and is located in the Aleutian Range on the Alaska Peninsula, 9 miles (14.5 km) northeast of Crescent Lake and 52 miles (84 km) west of Kenai, Alaska. The name is a translation of the Russian name “Sopka...
by CoastView | Dec 12, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Parks
Bayocean was a planned resort community founded in 1906 on a sand spit 4 miles (6.5 km) long and 0.5 miles (0.8 km) wide, that separates Tillamook Bay from the Pacific Ocean, about 63 miles (102 km) west of Portland and 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Tillamook, Oregon....
by CoastView | Dec 11, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Islands, Kachemak, Natural History
Hesketh Island is about 1.2 miles (1.9 km) long, located on the southern shore of Kachemak Bay, 9.5 miles (15 km) south of Homer and 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Seldovia, Alaska. In 1880, William Healey Dall named the island for Sir Thomas Hesketh who visited Cook...
by CoastView | Dec 10, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use
William Head is a peninsula on the north coast of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, between Pedder Bay to the south and Parry Bay to the north, 9.7 miles (15.6 km) southeast of Sooke and 9.6 miles (15.5 km) southwest of Victoria, British Columbia. William Head was named for...
by CoastView | Dec 9, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Ugamak Island is about 5.2 miles (8.4 km) long, located 75 miles (121 km) northeast of Unalaska and 36 miles (58 km) east of Akutan, Alaska. The island is the easternmost of the Krenitzin Island group, in the Fox Islands of the Eastern Aleutians. The Aleut name was...
by CoastView | Dec 8, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Pilot Point is a community on the eastern shore of Ugashik Bay, on the north coast of the Alaska Peninsula, 83 miles (134 km) south-southwest of King Salmon and 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Ugashik, Alaska. In 1889, this was a mixed Aleut and Yup’ik village with a...
