by CoastView | Sep 25, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses
Sitka Lighthouse is privately owned and located at the northwestern end of Galankin Island in Sitka Sound between the Beardslee Islands to the west and Ball Islets to the east, about 43 miles (69 km) southwest of Angoon and 1 mile (1.6 km) south-southwest of Sitka,...
by CoastView | Sep 24, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Elizabeth Island is about 3 miles (4.8 km) across, and along with Perl Island and East Chugach Island, it is one of the three Chugach Islands located on the north side of Kennedy Entrance about 96 miles (155 km) north-northeast of Kodiak and 36 miles (58 km)...
by CoastView | Sep 23, 2022 | 2022, California, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use
Tuluwat Island, also known as Gunther Island or Indian Island, is the largest of three islands along with Woodley and Dalby Islands located in Humboldt Bay, situated about 5.5 miles (8.8 km) south-southwest of Arcata and within the city of Eureka, California. Although...
by CoastView | Sep 22, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Waterfalls
Cliff Falls is the outlet for Cliff Lake situated at the head of Deep Cove, an embayment on the east coast of Baranof Island with an entrance about 1.1 miles (1.8 km) west of Patterson Point, about 41 miles (66 km) south-southeast of Sitka and 17.5 miles (28 km)...
by CoastView | Sep 21, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Coastal Features, Historical, Oregon
Hobbit Beach is a secluded strand located just north of Heceta Head, about 13 miles (21 km) north of Florence and 12.5 miles (20 km) south of Yachats, Oregon. The beach can be accessed via the Hobbit Trail which begins in a Sitka spruce forest and leads to the base of...
by CoastView | Sep 20, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Kachemak
Mariner Lagoon is situated at the base of the Homer Spit, about 1 mile (1.6 km) southeast of the community of Homer, Alaska. The lagoon was formed when Coal Bay was bisected by a road causeway in the 1940s to provide more reliable access to a deepwater harbor at the...
by CoastView | Sep 19, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Communities, Islands
Kitkatla is a small Tsimshian village on the north coast of Dolphin Island approximately 28 miles (45 km) southwest of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. It is also called Lach Klan or Laxklan by the Tsimshian. The village is home to the Gitxaała First Nation government...
by CoastView | Sep 18, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Embayments, Islands
Seal Island is forested and uninhabited, about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) across, and located in Prince William Sound, about 7 miles (11 km) east of Knight Island, and 58 miles (93 km) west-southwest of Cordova, Alaska. The name was first published in 1899 by the U.S. Coast...
by CoastView | Sep 17, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Headlands
Point Woronzof is a headland in Cook Inlet on the south coast of Knik Arm, 4 miles (6.5 km) west of downtown Anchorage, Alaska. The point was named after the Russian diplomat Semyon Vorontsov, by Lieutenant Joseph Whidbey of the Royal Navy who was a member of Captain...
by CoastView | Sep 15, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Land Use
Point Spencer is the north end of a spit about 19 miles (31 km) long, between the Bering Sea and Port Clarence, on the Seward Peninsula, about 14 miles (23 km) west of Teller, Alaska. The point was named in 1827 by Captain Frederick W. Beechey for Captain Robert...
