by CoastView | Oct 30, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
D’Arcy Island is one of the Southern Gulf Islands in Haro Strait with about 205 acres (83 ha), situated 2.3 miles (3.7 km) west-southwest of the international border and part of the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve, about 30 miles (48 km) west of Anacortes and...
by CoastView | Oct 29, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Islands, Natural History, Parks
Shakun Islets is a group of grass-covered islands and submerged reefs that extend north to south for 1.8 miles (2.9 km) at the entrance of Swikshak Bay in Shelikof Strait on the northeast coast of the Alaska Peninsula in Katmai National Park and Preserve, about 108...
by CoastView | Oct 23, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
HMCS Mackenzie was a destroyer launched in 1961 and served until 1993 in the Royal Canadian Navy and in the Canadian Forces before being scuttled in Haro Strait in a channel between Cornet and Gooch Islands in the Southern Gulf Islands, about 18 miles (29 km)...
by CoastView | Oct 22, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Hatcheries, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Whitman Creek starts from Blue Lake at an elevation of about 2,660 feet (811 m) on the south flank of Roy Jones Mountain on the southeast coast of Revillagigedo Island and flows generally southeast for 2.4 miles (4 km) to Whitman Lake, and then another 0.7 miles (1.1...
by CoastView | Oct 21, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Fossil Bluffs is on the northeast shore of Halleck Harbor near the northern entrance of Saginaw Bay on Kuiu Island, about 42 miles (68 km) southeast of Sitka and 17 miles (27 km) southwest of Kake, Alaska. The local name for the shoreline cliffs was recorded in 1948...
by CoastView | Oct 18, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Washington
Cutts Island is a state park about 300 feet (91 m) wide and 600 feet (183 m) long, with a distinctive sand spit extending 2,000 feet (610 m) north that nearly reaches Raft Island, and is situated about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) off the eastern shore of Carr Inlet in South...
