by CoastView | Sep 28, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks
Angoon is a historic Tlingit village located on an isthmus at the mouth of Kootznahoo Inlet on the eastern shore of Chatham Strait and the west coast of Admiralty Island, about 77 miles (124 km) northwest of Petersburg and 60 miles (97 km) southwest of Juneau, Alaska....
by CoastView | Sep 27, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
Lions Gate Bridge spans Burrard Inlet at the First Narrows, a strait about 1,312 feet (400 m) wide between Prospect Point in Stanley Park to the south and the sandy shoals of the Capilano River mouth to the north, about 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of West Vancouver and...
by CoastView | Sep 22, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, Communities, Developments, Freshwater, Historical, Land Use, Oregon, Rivers
Drift Creek Landing is a community on the south bank of the Alsea River, opposite the confluence of Drift Creek, a major Coast Range tributary joining the Alsea about 3.4 miles (5.5 km) east of Waldport, about 16 miles (26 km) south-southeast of Newport and 9 miles...
by CoastView | Sep 21, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Three Saints Harbor is the location of a historical Russian settlement established in 1784 on Three Saints Bay on the east coast of Kodiak Island, about 63 miles (101 km) southwest of Kodiak and 29 miles (47 km) northeast of Akhiok, Alaska. The settlement was at the...
by CoastView | Sep 17, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Shipwrecks
Battery Point forms the western shore of a crescent-shaped bight, and the harbor for Crescent City, about 22 miles (35 km) south-southeast of Brookings and 66 miles (106 km) north of Eureka, California. The point is named for a battery of cannons that were salvaged...
by CoastView | Sep 16, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Spook Island is in Cordova Bay, on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island, about 23 miles (37 km) southeast of Craig and across Sukkwan Strait from and 0.75 miles (1.2 km) west of Hydaburg, Alaska. Spook Island is north of Sukkwan Island and separated by Sukkwan...
