by CoastView | Feb 10, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Headlands, Islands, Natural History
Point Elrington is a tied island connected by a gravel isthmus to the southwestern tip of Elrington Island in the Gulf of Alaska, about 96 miles (155 km) southwest of Cordova and 43 miles (69 km) east-southeast of Seward, Alaska. The point was named by sailing master...
by CoastView | Feb 5, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Mines
Treadwell is a historical gold mine on the eastern coast of Douglas Island on Gastineau Channel, about 1.2 miles (1.9 km) southeast of the community of Douglas and 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of Juneau, Alaska. It was named after John Treadwell who discovered the gold...
by CoastView | Jan 28, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands
Tyee is the site of a historical cannery and shore whaling station in Murder Cove, an embayment about 0.7 miles (1.2 km) across at the southern tip of Admiralty Island, about 24 miles (39 km) west of Kake and 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Baranof, Alaska. It was named...
by CoastView | Jan 25, 2023 | 2023, Coastal Features, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History, Parks, Washington
Destruction Island is part of the Quillayute Needles National Wildlife Refuge, located 3.5 miles (6 km) offshore from the Olympic Peninsula, about 56 miles (90 km) southwest of Port Angeles and 17 miles (27 km) south-southeast of La Push, Washington. Quillayute...
by CoastView | Jan 23, 2023 | 2023, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Islands, Natural History
Dodd Narrows is at the northwest end of Mudge Island, separating Mudge Island from Vancouver Island, about 33 miles (53 km) southwest of Vancouver and 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Nanaimo, British Columbia. The Narrows is named after Charles Dodd, a ship captain and...
by CoastView | Jan 17, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Toksook Bay is a Yup’ik community on Nelson Island, in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, about 112 miles (181 km) west-southwest of Bethel and 13.5 miles (22 km) west-northwest of Nightmute, Alaska. Nelson Island was named in 1880 by Henry Gannett for Edward William Nelson,...
