by CoastView | Mar 22, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Mines, Natural History
Vindicator is a historical beach placer mine in the Alaska Peninsula Mining District situated on the western shore of Popof Island between Sand Point to the north and Red Cove to the south, about 260 miles (419 km) northeast of Dutch Harbor and 67 miles (108 km)...
by CoastView | Mar 21, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Diamond NN is a historic cannery in South Naknek at the mouth of the Naknek River that flows into Kvichak Bay, an arm of Bristol Bay, about 56 miles (90 km) southeast of Dillingham and 13 miles (21 km) west of King Salmon, Alaska. The salmon cannery was built by the...
by CoastView | Mar 19, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History, Parks
Estevan Point is the site of a historic lighthouse at the end of the Hesquiat Peninsula which forms the southern entrance to Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island, about 35 miles (56 km) southwest of Gold River and 33 miles (53 km) northwest of Tofino,...
by CoastView | Mar 11, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Washington
Toke Point is at the end of Tokeland Spit that projects southeast for 3 miles (5 km) from the northern shore of Willapa Bay, a large estuary formed by several streams, the largest being Willapa River, about 55 miles (89 km) southwest of Olympia and 15 miles (24 km)...
by CoastView | Mar 10, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, California, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History
Stinson Beach is a community on Bolinas Bay developed on a crescent-shaped sand spit partially enclosing Bolinas Lagoon between Duxbury Point to the northwest and Rocky Point to the south, about 15 miles (24 km) northwest of San Francisco and 14 miles (23 km)...
by CoastView | Mar 6, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History
Chrome Island is located 0.15 miles (0.24 km) south of Boyle Point Provincial Park, on the southern tip of Denman Island, and is the site of a historic lighthouse that marks the southern entrance to Baynes Sound, about 72 miles (116 km) west-northwest of Vancouver and...
