by CoastView | Sep 19, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Developments, Historical, Shelter Cabins
Akeonik is a shelter cabin and historically a reindeer station at the northern end of Kasegaluk Lagoon on the Chukchi Sea coast at Icy Cape, about 50 miles (81 km) southwest of Wainwright and 46 miles (74 km) northeast of Point Lay, Alaska. Throughout the mid to late...
by CoastView | Sep 13, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Canneries, Historical, Islands
Port Wakefield is an abandoned cannery on the east coast of Raspberry Island, about 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Kodiak and 14 miles (23 km) north-northwest of Port Lions, Alaska. The facility was named for Lowell Alvin Wakefield who is regarded as the founder of the...
by CoastView | Sep 10, 2023 | 2023, Coastal Features, Historical, Oregon, Parks
Indian Sands is an archaeological site in Samuel H. Boardman State Park, about 9 miles (14.5 km) northwest of Brookings and 4.5 miles (7.3 km) southwest of Carpenterville, Oregon. The artifacts found at the Indian Sands site are older than known sites on the...
by CoastView | Sep 8, 2023 | 2023, British Columbia, Communities, Developments, Historical
Ogden Point is a deepwater port facility and cruise ship terminal located 21 miles (34 km) north of Port Angeles and 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of downtown Victoria, British Columbia. Ogden Point was named after Peter Skene Ogden who was a prominent 19th Century trader...
by CoastView | Sep 3, 2023 | 2026, Historical, Islands, Rivers, September 2026, Washington
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/James-Island-WA.wav James Island rises more than 160 feet (49 meters) above the mouth of the Quillayute River, about 32 miles (52 km) south of Neah Bay and 0.6 miles (1 km) west of La Push,...
by CoastView | Aug 26, 2023 | 2026, August 2026, British Columbia, Communities, Embayments, Historical
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Pleasantside.mp3 Pleasantside is a residential neighborhood on the shore of the arm of Burrard Inlet known as Port Moody, about 12 miles (19 km) east of Vancouver and 1.5 miles (2.4 km)...
