by CoastView | Sep 5, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Malachan is a Ditidaht community of the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nation located at the head of Nitinat Lake on the west coast of Vancouver Island, 37 miles (60 km) southeast of Bamfield, and 93 miles (150 km) northwest by road from Victoria, British Columbia. The name...
by CoastView | Aug 29, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
The Seymour River flows from a large reservoir into Burrard Inlet in North Vancouver, British Columbia. The river is named after Frederick Seymour who was the governor of British Columbia from 1864 until his death from acute alcoholism aboard the HMS Sparrowhawk at...
by CoastView | Aug 22, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Humpback Bay is an embayment on the north coast of Porcher Island off Malacca Passage, about 15 miles (24 km) south of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. The bay is the site of a community named Porcher and the now derelict Porcher Island Cannery near the mouth of Back...
by CoastView | Aug 6, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Gingolx.mp3 Gingolx is located at the confluence of the Kincolith and Nass rivers on the northern shore of Nass Bay, approximately 70 miles (113 km) east-southeast of Ketchikan and 50 miles...
by CoastView | Jul 30, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks, Rivers, Shipwrecks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Pezuta.mp3 The Tlell River flows generally north-northeast for 28 miles (45 km) to Hecate Strait, near the wreck of the steamship SS Pezuta, about 29 miles (47 km) south-southeast of Masset...
by CoastView | Jul 23, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Beaver-Point.mp3 Beaver Point is a prominent headland in Ruckle Provincial Park on the southeastern shore of Salt Spring Island in the Southern Gulf Islands, about 8 miles (13 km)...
