by CoastView | Sep 10, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Mush Bay is the local name for a shallow embayment on the western shore of East Arm Uganik Bay, probably named after Mush Lake, on the west coast of Kodiak Island, 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Larsen Bay and 40 miles (65 km) west-southwest of Kodiak, Alaska. Mush...
by CoastView | Sep 3, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Cape Cleare is a headland on the southwest end of Montague Island, at the entrance to Montague Strait that leads to Prince William Sound, about 60 miles (97 km) southeast of Seward, Alaska. The cape was named by Captain Nathaniel Portlock in 1787. In 1791, Captain...
by CoastView | Aug 24, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Coastal Features, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers, Washington
The Raft River is a stream located entirely within the Quinault Indian Reservation on the Olympic Peninsula and flows into the Pacific Ocean at Tunnel Island, about 9 miles (15 km) north of Taholah, Washington. Tunnel Island is named for a sea cave that runs through...
by CoastView | Aug 22, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Humpback Bay is an embayment on the north coast of Porcher Island off Malacca Passage, about 15 miles (24 km) south of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. The bay is the site of a community named Porcher and the now derelict Porcher Island Cannery near the mouth of Back...
by CoastView | Aug 20, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Mount Edgecumbe is a dormant volcano with an elevation of 3,201 feet (976 m) on the southern coast of Kruzof Island, about 100 miles (161 km) southwest of Juneau and 16 miles (26 km) west of Sitka, Alaska. In 1775, the volcano was named Montana de San Jacinto by Don...
by CoastView | Aug 18, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Chip Cove is an embayment between Luchek Mountain to the south and Peak 2001 to the north, and the site of a historical salmon cannery on the western shore of Moser Bay near Olga Narrows on the southwestern coast of Kodiak Island, about 83 miles (131 km) southwest of...
