by CoastView | Oct 10, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, October 2024, Parks
Kendrick Island is surrounded by Wakes Cove Provincial Park near the eastern entrance to Gabriola Passage, 0.1 miles (0.2 km) off the northeast coast of Valdes Island, about 28 miles (45 km) southwest of Vancouver and 12 miles (19 km) east-southeast of Nanaimo,...
by CoastView | Oct 4, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, October 2024
Swartz Bay is at the north end of the Saanich Peninsula on Vancouver Island and is the location of a BC Ferries terminal that provides the marine link connecting Highway 17 with the mainland, about 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Tsawwassen and 2.7 miles (4.3 km) north...
by CoastView | Sep 27, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Rivers, September 2024
Lions Gate Bridge spans Burrard Inlet at the First Narrows, a strait about 1,312 feet (400 m) wide between Prospect Point in Stanley Park to the south and the sandy shoals of the Capilano River mouth to the north, about 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of West Vancouver and...
by CoastView | Sep 20, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, September 2024, Shipwrecks
SS Clarksdale Victory is a shipwreck on the west coast of Hippa Island, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Graham Island in the Haida Gwaii Archipelago, about 49 miles (79 km) southwest of Masset and 42 miles (68 km) northwest of Queen Charlotte, British Columbia. In 1778,...
by CoastView | Sep 8, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Climate Change, Developments, Freshwater, Historical, Islands, Land Use, September 2024
Fairfax Point is a point of land at the southern tip of Moresby Island, one of the Southern Gulf Islands, about 41 miles (66 km) south-southwest of Vancouver and 6 miles (10 km) northeast of Sidney, British Columbia. The island and the point are named after Rear...
by CoastView | Sep 1, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Mines, September 2024
Crofton is a small coastal community at Osborne Bay on the southeast coast of Vancouver Island, about 34 miles (55 km) north-northwest of Victoria and 26 miles (42 km) southeast of Nanaimo, British Columbia. The area is the traditional territory of the Halalt First...
