by CoastView | Jan 6, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Parks, Shelter Cabins
Kanatak is an uninhabited Alutiiq community of the Native Tribe of Kanatak located at the head of Portage Bay, on the Pacific coast of the Alaska Peninsula, about 136 miles (219 km) west-southwest of Kodiak and 65 miles (105 km) southeast of Egegik, Alaska. Portage...
by CoastView | Jan 5, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Parks, Rivers, Shipwrecks
Clo-oose is the site of an abandoned village of the Ditidaht First Nation on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, above a beach 0.25 miles (0.4 km) west of the Cheewhat River mouth, about 20 miles (32 km) west-northwest of Port Renfrew and 19 miles (31 km)...
by CoastView | Jan 4, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Rivers
Noatak River starts from several small cirque glaciers on the northeast flank of Mount lgikpak in the Schwatka Mountains and flows generally west for 425 miles (684 km) to Hotham Inlet in Kotzebue Sound, about 75 miles (121 km) southeast of Kivalina and 6 miles (10...
by CoastView | Jan 3, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, British Columbia, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Mines, Rivers
Hyder is a small community at the mouth of the Salmon River, on the western shore and near the head of Portland Canal, about 75 miles (121 km) northeast of Ketchikan and 2.5 miles (4 km) south-southwest of Stewart, British Columbia. Portland Canal is a fjord...
by CoastView | Jan 2, 2025 | 2025, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Headlands, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Lighthouses
Point Arguello is a prominent headland and the site of Vandenberg Space Launch Complex, as well as a historical cattle ranch, lighthouse station, and a Loran station, about 55 miles (89 km) west-northwest of Santa Barbara and 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Lompoc,...
by CoastView | Dec 30, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, December 2024, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Metlakatla is a Tsimshian community situated on Port Chester, an embayment on the west coast of Annette Island, about 75 miles (121 km) northwest of Prince Rupert and 16 miles (26 km) south-southeast of Ketchikan, Alaska. Port Chester was named for Commander Colby M....