by CoastView | Aug 28, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Shelter Cabins
Taku Harbor is a historical community and the site of an abandoned cannery in a small embayment on the eastern shore of Stephens Passage near Taku Inlet, about 86 miles (138 km) northeast of Sitka and 22 miles (35 km) southeast of Juneau, Alaska. Taku Harbor is named...
by CoastView | Aug 25, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Parks, Shipwrecks
East Point is the end of a long peninsula at the easternmost tip of Saturna Island in the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve, about 35 miles (56 km) south of Vancouver and 18 miles (29 km) northeast of Sidney, British Columbia. Saturna is a mountainous island of 7,680...
by CoastView | Aug 24, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks
Beauclerc Island is in Sumner Strait, at the entrance to Port Beauclerc on Kuiu Island, in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 80 miles (129 km) southeast of Sitka and 11 miles (18 km) southwest of Point Baker, Alaska. The island’s name is taken...
by CoastView | Aug 23, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Communities, Developments, Freshwater, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
Jago River starts at an unnamed glacier on the continental divide of the Romanzof Mountains in the Brooks Range and flows north for about 90 miles (145 km) through the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Jago Lagoon, about 88 miles (142 km) east-northeast of...
by CoastView | Aug 19, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Parks
Portlock Point is part of a larger peninsula that forms the eastern extremity of Prevost Island and is part of the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve, about 33 miles (53 km) south-southwest of Vancouver and 13 miles (21 km) north-northeast of Sidney, British Columbia....
by CoastView | Aug 18, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers, Shelter Cabins
Mount Susitna is a prominent mountain and landmark in northern Cook Inlet, with an elevation of 4,396 feet (1,340 m) rising from the Susitna Flats on the west bank of the Susitna River, about 65 miles (105 km) north-northeast of Kenai and 33 miles (53 km) northwest of...
