by CoastView | Apr 17, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Mines, Natural History
Delarof Harbor is an embayment and the site of the historical village of Unga on the southeast coast of Unga Island, the largest of the Shumagin Islands, about 73 miles (118 km) southwest of Perryville and 9.5 miles (15 km) south of Sand Point, Alaska. The harbor was...
by CoastView | Apr 15, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Eldred Rock is a small island and site of a historic lighthouse situated adjacent to Sullivan Island in Lynn Canal, between the Chilkat Range to the west and the Kakuhan Range to the east, about 55 miles (89 km) northwest of Juneau and 20 miles (32 km) south-southeast...
by CoastView | Apr 12, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Washington
Blake Island is a Washington State Marine Park in Puget Sound situated between Bainbridge Island to the north and Vashon Island to the south, about 8 miles (13 km) southwest of downtown Seattle and 7 miles (11 km) east of Port Orchard, Washington. The island was named...
by CoastView | Apr 11, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History, Parks, Shipwrecks
Green Island is part of the Dundas Island Archipelago situated on the west side of Chatham Sound and is the site of a historic lighthouse, about 65 miles (105 km) south-southeast of Ketchikan and 24 miles (39 km) northwest of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. The...
by CoastView | Apr 7, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Embayments, Islands, Lighthouses, Natural History
Merry Island is situated at the southern entrance to Welcome Passage in Malaspina Strait, between the Thormanby Islands to the west and the Sunshine Coast, about 39 miles (63 km) west-northwest of Vancouver and 3 miles (5 km) south of Halfmoon Bay, British Columbia....
by CoastView | Apr 3, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Islands, Natural History
Devils Bay is a bight about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) wide on the north shore of Black Cape, a prominent headland on the northwest coast of Afognak Island in the Kodiak Island Archipelago, about 97 miles (156 km) southwest of Homer and 48 miles (77 km) northwest of the...
