by CoastView | Jun 27, 2023 | 2023, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Oregon, Rivers, Shipwrecks
Mary D. Hume sank in 1984 on the south bank of the Rogue River during a restoration effort to convert the vessel to a museum ship for the Curry County Historical Society and now rests on the bottom in shallow water with a portion of the hull and superstructure exposed...
by CoastView | Jun 12, 2023 | 2023, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History, Parks, Shipwrecks
Cape Beale is the site of a historic lighthouse marking the southern entrance to Barkley Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, about 89 miles (143 km) west-northwest of Victoria and 4.7 miles (7.6 km) southwest of Bamfield,...
by CoastView | Jun 3, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Point Lena is located on Favorite Channel, between Point Stephens to the north and Point Louisa to the south, and is the site of an infamous historical shipwreck and the present-day Ted Stevens Marine Research Institute, about 63 miles (102 km) south-southeast of...
by CoastView | May 18, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Point Franklin is the site of several whaling shipwrecks at the end of a barrier spit that extends 13 miles (21 km) northeast from the Arctic Coastal Plain, and together with the Seahorse Islands, separates Peard Bay from the Chukchi Sea, about 54 miles (87 km)...
by CoastView | May 4, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Cape Pankof is a point of land situated at the eastern tip of the lkatan Peninsula on Unimak Island and the site of the shipwrecked SS Oduna, about 148 miles (239 km) northeast of Dutch Harbor and 18 miles (29 km) southeast of False Pass, Alaska. Unimak Island is...
by CoastView | May 2, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Communities, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Rivers, Shipwrecks
Siuslaw River starts at an elevation of 636 feet (194 m) in the Coast Range and flows generally west-northwest for 110 miles (177 km) to the Pacific Ocean at Florence, draining a watershed of 494,720 acres (200,206 ha), about 53 miles (85 km) west of Eugene and 43...
