by CoastView | Jul 2, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Flower Island is a small uninhabited islet about 250 feet (80 m) offshore from the southern end of Ten Mile Point, the local name for a neighborhood on a peninsula that forms the eastern shore of Cadboro Bay on Vancouver Island, about 15 miles (24 km) south-southeast...
by CoastView | Jul 1, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Canneries, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
The Cape Fox Packing Company operated a cannery from 1883 to 1886 on the north shore of Boca de Quadra, a fjord on the Portland Peninsula in present-day Misty Fjords National Monument Wilderness, about 59 miles (95 km) north-northwest of Prince Rupert and 36 miles (58...
by CoastView | Jun 30, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Letnikof Cove is a small embayment about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) across on the Chilkat Peninsula, situated on the eastern shore of Chilkat Inlet at the mouth of the Chilkat River, about 70 miles (113 km) north-northwest of Juneau and 5 miles (8 km) south-southeast of...
by CoastView | Jun 29, 2022 | 2022, Best of 2024, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Whaler Island is about 700 feet (215 m) across and situated about 0.4 miles (.65 km) offshore and is now connected to the mainland by a paved road on an artificial breakwater that together with Lighthouse Jetty forms a small protected harbor, about 16 miles (26 km)...
by CoastView | Jun 28, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Union Bay is situated on the lower Cleveland Peninsula between Lemesurier Point to the west and Union Point to the east, at the southern entrance to Ernest Sound, and is the site of a historical salmon cannery that was at the mouth of Cannery Creek, about 3 miles (4.8...
by CoastView | Jun 27, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers, Washington
Copalis River drains a watershed on the southwestern flank of the Olympic Mountains and flows generally southwest for 22 miles (35 km) to the community of Copalis Beach, and then another 2 miles (3.2 km) to the Pacific Ocean at Griffith-Priday State Park, about 21...
