by CoastView | Jul 19, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses
Whiffin Spit is a narrow sandspit that almost landlocks Sooke Harbour and Sooke Basin, about 17 miles (27 km) southwest of Victoria and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southeast of Sooke, British Columbia. Sooke Basin is a tidal inlet connected to the Strait of Juan de Fuca by...
by CoastView | Jul 18, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical
Yakutat is a small community at the head of Monti Bay, on the southeast shore of Yakutat Bay, about 222 miles (358 km) east-southeast of Cordova and 210 miles (339 km) northwest of Juneau, Alaska. The name “Baie de Monti” was given to Yakutat Bay or a part...
by CoastView | Jul 13, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Sturdies Bay is an embayment near the northern entrance to Active Pass between Rip Point and Burrill Point on the southeast shore of Galiano Island, one of the southern Gulf Islands, about 19 miles (31 km) southwest of Delta and 16 miles (26 km) north-northwest of...
by CoastView | Jul 12, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Chemical Pollution, Communities, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Shipwrecks
Cathedral Rocks is an island 0.3 miles (0.5 km) west of Cathedral Point on the northern shore of Makushin Bay, on the west coast of Unalaska Island in the Eastern Aleutians, about 98 miles (158 km) northwest of Nikolski and 18 miles (29 km) southwest of Dutch Harbor,...
by CoastView | Jul 10, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Rivers, Waterfalls
Baranof is a community located at the head of Warm Springs Bay, at the outlet of Baranof Lake, on the Chatham Strait coast of Baranof Island, about 86 miles (139 km) south-southwest of Juneau and 20 miles (32 km) east of Sitka, Alaska. The Tlingit name for the island...
by CoastView | Jul 6, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Communities, Freshwater, Historical, Rivers
Kenai River flows into Cook Inlet on the western shore of the Kenai Peninsula, about 65 miles (105 km) southwest of Anchorage and at the community of Kenai, Alaska. In June 1787, Stepan Zaikov on Saint PavelĀ of the Lebedev-Lastochkin Company established a post at the...