by CoastView | May 26, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Lonely was originally a Cold War Distant Early Warning facility until it was dismantled in 2018 and is now an unattended airstrip situated on the coast of the Beaufort Sea at Pitt Point between Drew Point on Smith Bay to the west and Cape Halkett on Harrison Bay to...
by CoastView | May 17, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Canneries, Chemical Pollution, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Port O’Brien is a remote salmon cannery located on the eastern shore of Northeast Arm Uganik Bay on the northwest coast of Kodiak Island, about 147 miles (236 km) south-southwest of Homer and 34 miles (55 km) west of Kodiak, Alaska. The cannery was named after...
by CoastView | May 10, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Port Bailey is a historical cannery in Dry Spruce Bay on the Kupreanof Peninsula of Kodiak Island, about 130 miles (209 km) south-southwest of Homer and 26 miles (42 km) west-northwest of Kodiak, Alaska. The cannery was named after F. Howard Bailey who was the company...
by CoastView | Apr 30, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use
Westridge Marine Terminal is located at the Burnaby Terminal on the south shore of Burrard Inlet, the western endpoint of the Trans Mountain Pipeline, about 7 miles (11 km) northwest of New Westminster and 5.3 miles (8.5 km) east of Vancouver in Burnaby, British...
by CoastView | Apr 23, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines
Kitsault is a historical mining community near the mouth of the Kitsault River at the head of Alice Arm, a fjord and eastern extension of Observatory Inlet, about 86 miles (138 km) north-northeast of Prince Rupert and 38 miles (61 km) southeast of Stewart, British...
by CoastView | Apr 20, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, California, Chemical Pollution, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Rivers
Los Angeles River starts at the confluence of Bell Creek and Arroyo Calabasas that drain from the Simi Hills and Santa Monica Mountains respectively, and flows generally southeast for 30 miles (48 km) through the San Fernando Valley and downtown Los Angeles and then...
