by CoastView | Jun 30, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Best of 2021, Canneries, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Islands
Alitak is a historical salmon cannery and fish processing plant located on Lazy Bay at the southern end of Kodiak Island, about 152 miles (245 km) southeast of King Salmon and 92 miles (148 km) southwest of Kodiak, Alaska. The cannery is named after Cape Alitak, a...
by CoastView | Jun 29, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Embayments, Parks, Rivers
Alsek River flows into the Gulf of Alaska at Dry Bay, close to the northern boundary of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 162 miles (261 km) northwest of Juneau and 50 miles (81 km) southeast of Yakutat, Alaska. The river starts at the confluence of the...
by CoastView | Jun 28, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Oregon, Parks
Nehalem Bay is separated from the Pacific Ocean by an along shore dune called Nehalem Spit in Nehalem Bay State Park, about 15 miles (25 km) north-northwest of Tillamook and 3.8 miles (6 km) south of Manzanita, Oregon. The sandspit is part of Nehalem Bay State Park....
by CoastView | Jun 26, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Embayments, Islands, Natural History
Boat Pass is a channel between Saturna Island and Samuel Island that provides a passage for small boats between Winter Cove and the Strait of Georgia, about 32 miles (52 km) south-southwest of Vancouver and 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Sidney, British Columbia....
by CoastView | Jun 25, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Embayments, Historical, Shipwrecks
SS Northwestern is a historical shipwreck near the head of Captains Bay, the southern arm of Unalaska Bay, on the northeast coast of Unalaska IslandĀ , about 112 miles (181 km) northeast of Nikolski and 5 miles (8 km) southwest of the community of Unalaska, Alaska. The...
by CoastView | Jun 24, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands
Refuge Rock is in Partition Cove on the eastern shore of Sitkalidak Island, about 54 miles (87 km) southwest of Kodiak and 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Old Harbor, Alaska. Partition Cove is separated from McDonald Lagoon by a narrow isthmus. Partition Cove was named...
