by CoastView | Aug 25, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Parks, Shipwrecks
East Point is the end of a long peninsula at the easternmost tip of Saturna Island in the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve, about 35 miles (56 km) south of Vancouver and 18 miles (29 km) northeast of Sidney, British Columbia. Saturna is a mountainous island of 7,680...
by CoastView | Aug 19, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Parks
Portlock Point is part of a larger peninsula that forms the eastern extremity of Prevost Island and is part of the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve, about 33 miles (53 km) south-southwest of Vancouver and 13 miles (21 km) north-northeast of Sidney, British Columbia....
by CoastView | Aug 13, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Communities, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Rivers
Prince Rupert is a port community on Kaien Island, just north of the mouth of the Skeena River, and linked by a short bridge to the British Columbia mainland, about 465 miles (748 km) northwest of Vancouver and 90 miles (145 km) southeast of Ketchikan, Alaska. The...
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 1, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Canneries, Communities, Historical, Rivers
Port Essington is an abandoned cannery town on the south bank of the Skeena River estuary at the confluence of the Ecstall River, about 61 miles (98 km) southwest of Terrace and 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. It is located on the...
by CoastView | Jul 26, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Islands, Lighthouses, Parks, Shipwrecks
Discovery Island is part of a group of islands in Oak Bay off the southeastern tip of Vancouver Island at Sea Bird Point, about 17 miles (27 km) southeast of Sidney and 6.5 miles (10.5 km) east of downtown Victoria, British Columbia. Discovery Island is about 2.5...
