by CoastView | Mar 4, 2026 | 2026, Alaska, Best of 2025, Communities, Developments, Islands, Land Use, March 2026, Natural History
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Diomede.mp3 Diomede is an Iñupiaq village on the west coast of Little Diomede Island, located less than 1 mile (1.6 km) from the International Date Line, 2.4 miles (3.9 km) east of Big Diomede...
by CoastView | Feb 26, 2026 | 2026, Best of 2025, British Columbia, Developments, Embayments, February 2026, Land Use, Mines, Natural History
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IslandCopperMine.mp3 Island Copper was an open pit mine at the northern end of Vancouver Island on Rupert Inlet at the head of Quatsino Sound, about 4.6 miles (7.4 km) east of Coal Harbour and...
by CoastView | Oct 18, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Best of 2025, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History, October 2025
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Portlock-Cannery.mp3 Portlock is a historical salmon cannery in Port Chatham, an inlet on the southern coast of the Kenai Peninsula, approximately 102 miles (164 km) north-northeast of Kodiak...
by CoastView | Jul 8, 2025 | 2025, Best of 2025, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Whaler-Island.mp3 Whaler Island, about 700 feet (215m) across, lies 0.4 miles (0.65km) offshore and is now connected to the mainland by a paved road on an artificial breakwater, about 16 miles...
by CoastView | May 4, 2025 | 2025, Best of 2025, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Rivers, Washington
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Dismal-Nitch.mp3 Dismal Nitch is a cove on the north shore of the lower Columbia River, historically significant as the last campsite of the Lewis and Clark Expedition before they sighted the...
by CoastView | Sep 18, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Best of 2025, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Bell Island is the site of a historic hot spring on Behm Canal, in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 49 miles (79 km) southeast of Wrangell and 40 miles (64 km) north-northeast of Ketchikan, Alaska. In August of 1793, Captain George Vancouver...
