by CoastView | May 17, 2025 | 2025, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, May 2025
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/BC-Ferries.mp3 The Gulf Islands and Vancouver Island are connected to the mainland by BC Ferries, the largest ferry line in North America and the second-largest worldwide, that provides...
by CoastView | May 15, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Canneries, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, May 2025
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Port-Althorp.mp3 Port Althorp is an embayment and the site of a historical salmon cannery on the north coast of Chichagof Island, about 155 miles (250 km) southeast of Yakutat and 29 miles (47...
by CoastView | May 6, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, May 2025, Natural History
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Parks-Cannery.mp3 Parks Cannery is located in Uyak Bay on the west coast of Kodiak Island, 24 miles (39 km) south of Shelikof Strait, 8 miles (13 km) south-southeast of Larsen Bay, and 61...
by CoastView | May 5, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, May 2025
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Dutch-Harbor.mp3 Dutch Harbor is an anchorage and fish-processing facility on the east coast of Amaknak Island, bordered by Mount Ballyhoo to the west and a gravel spit to the east that forms...
by CoastView | Apr 29, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, April 2025, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Port-Hobron-1.mp3 Port Hobron, an abandoned whaling station, sits on the south shore of a fjord of the same name on the north coast of Sitkalidak Island, about 6 miles (10 km) southeast of Old...
by CoastView | Apr 28, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, April 2025, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Afognak.mp3 Afognak, located at the head of Marmot Bay on the southeast coast of Afognak Island in the Kodiak Archipelago, is a historic village abandoned after the 1964 tsunami, about 122...
