by CoastView | Feb 20, 2025 | 2025, British Columbia, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, February 2025, Historical, Land Use, Mines
Anyox is an abandoned mining community in the Coast Mountains at the mouth of Anyox Creek on Granby Bay in Observatory Inlet, about 79 miles (127 km) north-northeast of Prince Rupert and 37 miles (60 km) south of Stewart, British Columbia. The name Anyox means...
by CoastView | Feb 19, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, February 2025, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, Waterfalls
Rookery Falls is located on the northern shore of Passage Canal in Prince William Sound, about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Anchorage and 1.7 miles (1.9 km) north-northeast of Whittier, Alaska. The waterfall is about 200 feet (61 m) high and drains a small lake...
by CoastView | Feb 18, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Canneries, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, February 2025, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Cannery Cove is an embayment on the western shore of Pybus Bay in the Kootznoowoo Wilderness on the southern coast of Admiralty Island, about 70 miles (113 km) south of Juneau and 24 miles (39 km) north-northwest of Kake, Alaska. The name of the cove was first...
by CoastView | Feb 17, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, February 2025, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
North Entrance is a channel connecting Big Salt Lake to Shinaku Inlet at the head of San Alberto Bay on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska, about 66 miles (106 km) south-southwest of Wrangell and 5 miles (8 km) north of Klawock, Alaska....
by CoastView | Feb 16, 2025 | 2025, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, February 2025, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History
West Ballenas Island is about 100 acres (40 ha) in the Gulf Islands and the site of a historic lighthouse in the Ballenas-Winchelsea Archipelago, an area proposed for a marine park of 12,108 acres (4900 ha), about 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Nanaimo and 7 miles (11...
by CoastView | Feb 15, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Embayments, February 2025, Headlands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Point Resistance is a headland on Drakes Bay at the north end of Kelham Beach in the Phillip Burton Wilderness of Point Reyes National Seashore and on the western shore of the Marin Peninsula, about 27 miles (44 km) northwest of San Francisco and 3.5 miles (7 km)...
