by CoastView | Feb 20, 2025 | 2025, British Columbia, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, February 2025, Historical, Land Use, Mines
Anyox is an abandoned mining community in the Coast Mountains at the mouth of Anyox Creek on Granby Bay in Observatory Inlet, about 79 miles (127 km) north-northeast of Prince Rupert and 37 miles (60 km) south of Stewart, British Columbia. The name Anyox means...
by CoastView | Feb 7, 2025 | 2025, British Columbia, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, February 2025, Headlands, Historical, Lighthouses
Dryad Point is situated on the northeastern point of Campbell Island and is the site of a historic lighthouse marking the intersection of Lama Passage to the east and Seaforth Channel to the north on the Inside Passage, about 173 miles (278 km) southeast of Prince...
by CoastView | Feb 1, 2025 | 2025, British Columbia, Communities, February 2025, Historical, Land Use, Rivers
Terrace is a community at the confluence of the Skeena and Kitsumkalum Rivers, about 71 miles (114 km) east-northeast of Prince Rupert and 64 miles (103 km) southwest of Hazelton, British Columbia. The community name comes from the terraces or benches rising up from...
by CoastView | Jan 25, 2025 | 2025, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Freshwater, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Rivers
Cowichan Bay is a community situated on the south shore of an estuary shared by the Cowichan and Koksilah Rivers that form an extensive tidal flat on the east coast of southern Vancouver Island, about 26 miles (42 km) north-northwest of Victoria and 4 miles (6 km)...
by CoastView | Jan 18, 2025 | 2025, British Columbia, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Mines, Rivers
Stewart is a Canadian border community at the mouth of the Bear River and the head of Portland Canal, connected to Hyder, Alaska by 2 miles (3.2 km) of road, about 99 miles (159 km) east-southeast of Wrangell and 114 miles (183 km) north of Prince Rupert, British...
by CoastView | Jan 11, 2025 | 2025, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
Gilttoyees Creek starts from a series of cirque basins on the east and south flank of Tentacle Peak in the Kitimat Ranges and flows generally southeast for about 20 miles (32 km) through the Foch-Gilttoyees Provincial Park and Protected Area to Gilttoyees Inlet which...
