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...
by CoastView | Aug 15, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Oregon, Parks, Rivers
Cape Kiwanda is a sandstone headland with an elevation of 240 feet (73 m), protected by a basalt island known as Haystack Rock lying 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the southwest, about 18 miles (29 km) south-southwest of Tillamook and 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of Pacific City,...
by CoastView | Aug 13, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Communities, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Rivers
Prince Rupert is a port community on Kaien Island, just north of the mouth of the Skeena River, and linked by a short bridge to the British Columbia mainland, about 465 miles (748 km) northwest of Vancouver and 90 miles (145 km) southeast of Ketchikan, Alaska. The...
by CoastView | Aug 12, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Communities, Islands, Rivers
Tyonek is a historical Dena’ina Athabascan community situated on a bluff on the northwest shore of Cook Inlet, about 43 miles (69 km) west-southwest of Anchorage and 35 miles (56 km) north of Kenai, Alaska. The village name is derived from the word Tyone meaning...
