by CoastView | May 7, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Climate Change, Communities, Developments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
The North Warning System at Barter Island is a long-range radar facility on the Beaufort Sea coast, situated between Arey Lagoon to the west and Kaktovik Lagoon to the east and adjacent to the village of Kaktovik, about 273 miles (440 km) northwest of Inuvik,...
by CoastView | May 6, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Whale Passage is a waterway about 10 miles (16 km) long and the site of a historic logging camp, situated between Thorne Island to the east and Prince of Wales Island to the west, about 40 miles (65 km) southwest of Wrangell and 11 miles (18 km) west-northwest of...
by CoastView | May 4, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Cape Pankof is a point of land situated at the eastern tip of the lkatan Peninsula on Unimak Island and the site of the shipwrecked SS Oduna, about 148 miles (239 km) northeast of Dutch Harbor and 18 miles (29 km) southeast of False Pass, Alaska. Unimak Island is...
by CoastView | Apr 29, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Best of 2024, Communities, Developments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Savoonga is a Siberian Yupik community situated on the north flank of the Kookooligit Mountains at Savoonga Point on the north coast of Saint Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, about 164 miles (265 km) southwest of Nome and 39 miles (63 km) east of Gambell, Alaska....
by CoastView | Apr 27, 2023 | 2023, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History, Parks
Año Nuevo Island is the site of a historic light tower and fog signal on about 9 acres (3.6 ha) and separated from Point Año Nuevo by a shallow channel encompassed by Año Nuevo State Park, about 21 miles (34 km) northwest of Santa Cruz and 11 miles (18 km)...
by CoastView | Apr 23, 2023 | 2023, British Columbia, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Ganges Harbour is an embayment on the eastern coast of Salt Spring Island that extends 5 miles northwest from Captain Passage, about 35 miles (57 km) southwest of Vancouver, and 15 miles (24 km) north-northwest of Sidney, British Columbia. Ganges Harbour was...
