by CoastView | Aug 8, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Oregon, Shipwrecks
Boiler Bay Intertidal Research Reserve is a rocky embayment 0.6 miles (1 km) wide between Government Point to the south and Rabbit Rock to the north, and an intertidal research reserve, about 9 miles (14.5 km) south of Lincoln City and 1.6 miles (2.6 km) north of...
by CoastView | Aug 7, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands
Whaler Bay is located on the southeast end of Galiano Island adjacent to Sturdies Bay and across the island from Montague Harbour, about 28 miles (45 km) south-southwest of Vancouver and 18 miles (29 km) north of Sidney, British Columbia. Galiano Island is one of the...
by CoastView | Aug 6, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Islands
Stockdale Harbor is on the northwest coast of Montague Island in Prince William Sound, about 62 miles (100 km) southeast of Whittier and 54 miles (87 km) southwest of Cordova, Alaska. In 1776, Nathaniel Portlock joined HMS Discovery as master’s mate under the...
by CoastView | Jul 28, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Best of 2021, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Historical, Land Use, Oregon, Rivers, Shipwrecks
Camp Castaway is a historical site on North Spit of Coos Bay, a sandy, vegetated peninsula separating the estuary of the Coos River from the Pacific Ocean, about 3.8 miles (6 km) west of North Bend and 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Charleston, Oregon. The spit was the site...
by CoastView | Jul 17, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands
Alaska Whaling Company built a whaling station in 1912 on the south shore of Akutan Harbor on Akutan Island, about 34 miles (55 km) northeast of Dutch Harbor and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west-southwest of the village of Akutan, Alaska. It was the only whaling station in the...
by CoastView | Jul 6, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Communities, Freshwater, Historical, Rivers
Kenai River flows into Cook Inlet on the western shore of the Kenai Peninsula, about 65 miles (105 km) southwest of Anchorage and at the community of Kenai, Alaska. In June 1787, Stepan Zaikov on Saint PavelĀ of the Lebedev-Lastochkin Company established a post at the...
