by CoastView | Sep 20, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Shipwrecks
SSÂ Clarksdale Victory is a shipwreck on the west coast of Hippa Island, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Graham Island in the Haida Gwaii Archipelago, about 49 miles (79 km) southwest of Masset and 42 miles (68 km) northwest of Queen Charlotte, British Columbia. In 1778,...
by CoastView | Sep 17, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Shipwrecks
Battery Point forms the western shore of a crescent-shaped bight, and the harbor for Crescent City, about 22 miles (35 km) south-southeast of Brookings and 66 miles (106 km) north of Eureka, California. The point is named for a battery of cannons that were salvaged...
by CoastView | Sep 10, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Shipwrecks
Little Island is in Lynn Canal at the north end of Favorite Channel, 0.4 miles (0.6 km) north of Ralston Island, and about 67 miles (108 km) south of Skagway and 28 miles (45 km) northwest of Juneau, Alaska. The descriptive name for the island was given in 1880 by...
by CoastView | Sep 2, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Shipwrecks
Chil Bo San No. 6 is a shipwreck on Spray Cape, a conspicuous headland on the west coast of Unalaska Island between Skan Bay to the north and Pumicestone Bay to the south, about 85 miles (137 km) northeast of Nikolski and 32 miles (52 km) southwest of Dutch Harbor,...
by CoastView | Aug 26, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Shipwrecks
FV Lisa Jo is a shipwreck at the entrance to Akun Bay on the western coast of Akun Island between Round Head to the south and Billings Head to the north, about 94 miles (151 km) southwest of False Pass and 13 miles (21 km) northeast of the village of Akutan, Alaska....
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...
