by CoastView | Sep 26, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks
Hogg Island is the site of a historical fox farm and herring reduction plant situated in Bluefox Bay on Shelikof Strait and the northwest coast of Afognak Island, about 91 miles (147 km) southwest of Homer and 47 miles (76 km) north-northwest of Kodiak, Alaska....
by CoastView | Sep 21, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Three Saints Harbor is the location of a historical Russian settlement established in 1784 on Three Saints Bay on the east coast of Kodiak Island, about 63 miles (101 km) southwest of Kodiak and 29 miles (47 km) northeast of Akhiok, Alaska. The settlement was at the...
by CoastView | Sep 20, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Shipwrecks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/SSClarksdaleVictory.mp3 SS Clarksdale Victory lies wrecked off the west coast of Hippa Island, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Graham Island in the Haida Gwaii Archipelago, about 49 miles (79 km)...
by CoastView | Sep 18, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Best of 2025, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Bell Island is the site of a historic hot spring on Behm Canal, in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 49 miles (79 km) southeast of Wrangell and 40 miles (64 km) north-northeast of Ketchikan, Alaska. In August of 1793, Captain George Vancouver...
by CoastView | Sep 16, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Spook Island is in Cordova Bay, on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island, about 23 miles (37 km) southeast of Craig and across Sukkwan Strait from and 0.75 miles (1.2 km) west of Hydaburg, Alaska. Spook Island is north of Sukkwan Island and separated by Sukkwan...
by CoastView | Sep 15, 2024 | 2024, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Washington
Skull Island is about 0.13 miles (0.2 km) long with an area of 2.5 acres (1.0 ha) situated at the head of Massacre Bay in West Sound, a large embayment on the southern shore of Orcas Island, about 25 miles (40 km) west-southwest of Bellingham and 8.5 miles (14 km)...
