by CoastView | Feb 6, 2023 | 2023, British Columbia, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use
Butedale is a historical salmon cannery and community located on a small embayment adjacent to Butedale Falls along the Inside Passage on the northeast side of Princess Royal Island across from Work Island on the southern shore of Fraser Reach, which is part of...
by CoastView | Feb 2, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Amakdedori Creek drains a watershed of 17,781 acres (7,196 ha) on the eastern flank of the Aleutian Range and flows southeast for 10 miles (16 km) to Kamishak Bay, about 26 miles (42 km) southwest of Augustine Island, and 95 miles (153 km) southwest of Homer, Alaska....
by CoastView | Feb 1, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Coastal Features, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Shipwrecks
New Carissa was a freighter 639 feet (195 m) in length that grounded on North Spit in 1999, causing an oil spill about 5 miles (8 km) northwest of Coos Bay and 4 miles (6.5 km) west of the community of North Bend, Oregon. The U.S. Navy set explosives on the ship to...
by CoastView | Jan 30, 2023 | 2023, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Parks
Siwash Rock is a sea stack on the western shoreline of Stanley Park in Burrard Inlet, between English Bay to the south and the entrance to Vancouver Harbour to the north, about 3 miles (5 km) northwest of downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. The formation is about 50...
by CoastView | Jan 29, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Land Use
Valdez Marine Terminal is located on the southern shore of Port Valdez, a fjord in northeastern Prince William Sound that is about 13 miles (21 km) long and trends west-east from Valdez Narrows at the head of Valdez Arm to the mouth of the Lowe River, about 124 miles...
by CoastView | Jan 28, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands
Tyee is the site of a historical cannery and shore whaling station in Murder Cove, an embayment about 0.7 miles (1.2 km) across at the southern tip of Admiralty Island, about 24 miles (39 km) west of Kake and 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Baranof, Alaska. It was named...
