by CoastView | Apr 16, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers, Shipwrecks
The Hulks is a floating breakwater consisting of ship hulls anchored off the mouth of Powell River originally to protect a log pond for a pulp and paper mill, about 28 miles (45 km) southeast of Campbell River and 2 miles (3.2 km) north-northwest of the community of...
by CoastView | Apr 15, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Eldred Rock is a small island and site of a historic lighthouse situated adjacent to Sullivan Island in Lynn Canal, between the Chilkat Range to the west and the Kakuhan Range to the east, about 55 miles (89 km) northwest of Juneau and 20 miles (32 km) south-southeast...
by CoastView | Apr 11, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History, Parks, Shipwrecks
Green Island is part of the Dundas Island Archipelago situated on the west side of Chatham Sound and is the site of a historic lighthouse, about 65 miles (105 km) south-southeast of Ketchikan and 24 miles (39 km) northwest of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. The...
by CoastView | Apr 4, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Shipwrecks, Washington
Cape Alava is a point of land on the outer coast of the Olympic Peninsula in Olympic National Park, and bordering the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, about 22 miles (35 km) northwest of Forks and 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Neah Bay, Washington. The cape is...
by CoastView | Mar 24, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Shipwrecks
Tugidak Island is the westernmost of the Trinity Island Group, which includes Sitkinak Island, and is part of the Kodiak Archipelago situated off the southern tip of Kodiak Island in the Gulf of Alaska, about 145 miles (233 km) east of Chignik and 124 miles (200 km)...
by CoastView | Mar 14, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks, Washington
Tongue Point is a rocky ledge in the Strait of Juan de Fuca that projects from a peninsula forming the eastern shore of Crescent Bay on the north coast of the Olympic Peninsula and the site of a historical port and shipwreck, about 44 miles (71 km) east-southeast of...
