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 7, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Lighthouses, Parks
Fisgard Island Light Station is located in Royal Roads off the southern shore of Vancouver Island at the entrance to Esquimalt Harbour, about 3.6 miles (5.8 km) west of Victoria and in the community of Colwood, British Columbia. In 1846, Commander James Woods surveyed...
by CoastView | Jul 3, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Parks
Platinum is a mining community located on the Smalls River at the base of South Spit in Goodnews Bay, about 123 miles (198 km) south of Bethel and 11 miles (18 km) southwest of the village of Goodnews, Alaska. Goodnews Bay was originally called Imagpiguak by the...
by CoastView | Jul 1, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands
Kaguyak is an abandoned Alutiiq village on the Aliulik Peninsula on the southeastern coast of Kodiak Island at the head of Kaguyak Bay, about 165 miles (266 km) southeast of King Salmon and 81 miles (131 km) southwest of the city of Kodiak, Alaska. In 1849, the...
