by CoastView | Sep 13, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use
Millers Landing is on the north shore of Kachemak Bay, on the Kenai Peninsula, about 4 miles (6.5 km) northwest of Homer, Alaska. The local name was first reported and published by the U.S. Geological Survey in the 1950s. Millers Landing is named after Charles Miller...
by CoastView | Sep 4, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines
Copper City is an abandoned mining community on the eastern shore of Hetta Inlet, on the southwest coast of Prince of Wales Island, 5.5 miles (9 km) north of Lime Point, and 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Hydaburg, Alaska. The local name was first reported in 1905 by...
by CoastView | Aug 29, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
The Seymour River flows from a large reservoir into Burrard Inlet in North Vancouver, British Columbia. The river is named after Frederick Seymour who was the governor of British Columbia from 1864 until his death from acute alcoholism aboard the HMS Sparrowhawk at...
by CoastView | Aug 28, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Rivers, Waterfalls
Beaver Falls Creek is on Revillagigedo Island, on the western shore of George Inlet, 5.3 miles (8.5 km) northeast of Ketchikan, Alaska. The local name was reported in 1915 by G.H. Canfield of the U.S. Geological Survey. The stream starts in an unnamed cirque lake...
by CoastView | Aug 23, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Anchor River is on the Kenai Peninsula and flows west for about 30 miles (48 km) from Bald Mountain to a lagoon at Anchor Point on the eastern shore of Cook Inlet, at the northern edge of Kachemak Bay, about 14 miles (23 km) northwest of Homer, Alaska. The middle...
by CoastView | Aug 22, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Humpback Bay is an embayment on the north coast of Porcher Island off Malacca Passage, about 15 miles (24 km) south of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. The bay is the site of a community named Porcher and the now derelict Porcher Island Cannery near the mouth of Back...
