by CoastView | Aug 25, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Parks, Shipwrecks
East Point is the end of a long peninsula at the easternmost tip of Saturna Island in the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve, about 35 miles (56 km) south of Vancouver and 18 miles (29 km) northeast of Sidney, British Columbia. Saturna is a mountainous island of 7,680...
by CoastView | Aug 24, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks
Beauclerc Island is in Sumner Strait, at the entrance to Port Beauclerc on Kuiu Island, in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 80 miles (129 km) southeast of Sitka and 11 miles (18 km) southwest of Point Baker, Alaska. The island’s name is taken...
by CoastView | Aug 20, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands
False Pass is a small community on the east coast of Unimak Island, at the northern end of Isanotski Strait, about 142 miles (229 km) northeast of Dutch Harbor and 38 miles (61 km) southwest of Cold Bay, Alaska. Isanotski Strait was a name historically used for the...
by CoastView | Aug 19, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Parks
Portlock Point is part of a larger peninsula that forms the eastern extremity of Prevost Island and is part of the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve, about 33 miles (53 km) south-southwest of Vancouver and 13 miles (21 km) north-northeast of Sidney, British Columbia....
by CoastView | Aug 17, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands
Mueller Cove provides a protected landing for the village of Nikolski at the head of Nikolski Bay, on the northern shore and at the southwestern end of Umnak Island in the eastern Aleutian Islands, about 338 miles (544 km) east-northeast of Adak and 116 miles (187 km)...
by CoastView | Aug 16, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Mines, Parks, Sea Caves, Shipwrecks
Helm Point is a prominent headland at the southern tip of Coronation Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska between Chatham and Sumner Straits, about 94 miles (151 km) south-southeast of Sitka and 86 miles (138 km) southwest of Wrangell, Alaska. The...
