by CoastView | Mar 29, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Tahsis is a community on the west coast of Vancouver Island at the head of Tahsis Inlet which is the northern arm of Nootka Sound, about 50 miles (80 km) south-southeast of Port McNeill and 30 miles (48 km) west-northwest of Gold River, British Columbia. The name is...
by CoastView | Mar 19, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History, Parks
Estevan Point is the site of a historic lighthouse at the end of the Hesquiat Peninsula which forms the southern entrance to Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island, about 35 miles (56 km) southwest of Gold River and 33 miles (53 km) northwest of Tofino,...
by CoastView | Mar 6, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History
Chrome Island is located 0.15 miles (0.24 km) south of Boyle Point Provincial Park, on the southern tip of Denman Island, and is the site of a historic lighthouse that marks the southern entrance to Baynes Sound, about 72 miles (116 km) west-northwest of Vancouver and...
by CoastView | Mar 3, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Cordova Bay is a shallow bight and a community located on the eastern shore of the Saanich Peninsula in the municipality of Saanich, one of the 13 cities comprising the Greater Victoria Region on Vancouver Island, about 9 miles (14.5 km) south-southeast of Sidney and...
by CoastView | Mar 2, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History
Langara is the northernmost island of the Haida Gwaii archipelago and the site of a historic light station that marks the southern boundary of Dixon Entrance, about 94 miles (151 km) southwest of Ketchikan, Alaska and 38 miles (61 km) west-northwest of Masset, British...
by CoastView | Feb 25, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Scotia River starts at an elevation of 5,023 feet (1,531 m) in the Coast Range and flows generally north-northwest for 14 miles (22 km) through the Great Bear Rainforest, draining a watershed of 33,360 acres (13,500 ha) to the southern shore, or left bank, of the...
