by CoastView | Mar 15, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses
Cordova Rose is a landlocked barge that was converted to a guest lodge on the southern shore of Odiak Slough, a tidal embayment on Orca Inlet in Prince William Sound and adjacent to Eyak Lake, about 46 miles (74 km) south-southeast of Valdez and 0.5 miles (0.8 km)...
by CoastView | Mar 6, 2023 | 2023, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Headlands, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History, Parks
Cape Scott is a headland about 500 feet (150 m) high at the extreme northwestern point of Vancouver Island in Cape Scott Provincial Park, about 256 miles 412 km) south-southeast of Prince Rupert and 41 miles (66 km) west of Port Hardy, British Columbia. The promontory...
by CoastView | Feb 20, 2023 | 2023, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Lighthouses
Pachena Point Light Station is located on the west coast of Vancouver Island in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, about 82 miles (132 km) northwest of Victoria and 8 miles (13 km) south-southeast of Bamfield, British Columbia. The light station is situated on Pachena...
by CoastView | Feb 15, 2023 | 2023, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Washington
Lime Kiln Light was established in 1919 on Lime Kiln Point, a day-use park of 36 acres (15 ha) overlooking Deadman Bay to the south and Haro Strait to the west on the west coast of San Juan Island, about 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Victoria and 6.4 miles (10 km)...
by CoastView | Feb 13, 2023 | 2023, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History
Staines Point is the southern tip of the Trial Islands which comprise two islets separated by a narrow channel situated in the Strait of Juan de Fuca about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) offshore from the southern end of Vancouver Island at McNeill Bay, about 3.5 miles (5.6 km)...
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...
