by CoastView | Jun 27, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Lighthouses, Shipwrecks
Sentinel Island is located along the eastern shore of Lynn Canal in the center of Favorite Channel near the northern entrance, about 51 miles (82 km) south-southeast of Haines and 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Juneau, Alaska. The island was probably named in 1869 by...
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 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...
by CoastView | Jun 22, 2024 | 2024, Historical, Islands, Lighthouses, Oregon
Tillamook Rock is the site of a deactivated lighthouse located about 1.3 miles (2km) west of Tillamook Head in the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge, about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Astoria and 34 miles (39 km) north-northwest of Tillamook, Oregon. The...
by CoastView | Jun 17, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Natural History, Parks
The Semidi Islands are a group of rocks, reefs, and islands lying off the coast of the Alaska Peninsula in the Gulf of Alaska, about 92 miles (148 km) east-northeast of Perryville, and 61 miles (98 km) east of Chignik, Alaska. The largest islands of the group are...
by CoastView | Jun 15, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Historical, Islands, Lighthouses
WLV-196 Umatilla was the last lightship to mark Umatilla Reef off Washington state and in 2005 was moored on the north shore of Pennock Island in Southeast Alaska, about 2.75 miles (4.4 km) northwest of Saxman and 0.75 miles (1.2 km) southwest of Ketchikan, Alaska....
