by CoastView | Jul 29, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Climate Change, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Islands, Parks, Shipwrecks
Cenotaph Island is approximately in the middle of Lituya Bay, a fjord formed primarily by the Crillon and Lituya glaciers in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 117 miles (189 km) west-northwest of Juneau and 97 miles (156 km) southeast of Yakutat, Alaska....
by CoastView | Jul 28, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Historical, Land Use, Oregon, Rivers, Shipwrecks
Camp Castaway is a historical site on North Spit of Coos Bay, a sandy, vegetated peninsula separating the estuary of the Coos River from the Pacific Ocean, about 3.8 miles (6 km) west of North Bend and 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Charleston, Oregon. The spit was the site...
by CoastView | Jul 27, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands
Larsen Bay is a small village and historical salmon cannery on Larsen Bay, an embayment that extends 6 miles (9.6 km) off of Uyak Bay on the west coast of Kodiak Island, about 125 miles (202 km) southeast of King Salmon and 58 miles (94 km) west-southwest of Kodiak,...
by CoastView | Jul 26, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Islands, Lighthouses, Parks, Shipwrecks
Discovery Island is part of a group of islands in Oak Bay off the southeastern tip of Vancouver Island at Sea Bird Point, about 17 miles (27 km) southeast of Sidney and 6.5 miles (10.5 km) east of downtown Victoria, British Columbia. Discovery Island is about 2.5...
by CoastView | Jul 25, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Islands, Parks, Rivers
Tuxedni Bay is an estuary that extends southeast for 14 miles (23 km) from the mouth of Tuxedni River to Cook Inlet at Chisik Island, about 59 miles (95 km) northwest of Homer and 57 miles (92 km) southwest of Kenai, Alaska. The Dena’ina name for the bay was...
by CoastView | Jul 24, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical
Haines is a small Southeast Alaska community on the Chilkat Peninsula at the north end of Lynn Canal between Chilkat Inlet and Chilkoot Inlet, about 75 miles (121 km) north-northwest of Juneau and 15.5 miles (25 km) south-southwest of Skagway, Alaska. The area was...
by CoastView | Jul 23, 2024 | 2024, California, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical
Bodega Head is a granitic promontory at the north end of Bodega Bay in Sonoma County, approximately 40 miles (64 km) northwest of San Francisco and 20 miles (32 km) west of Santa Rosa, California. The headland and Doran Beach form a natural harbor protected from open...
by CoastView | Jul 22, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Shipwrecks
The remains of SS Islander and the salvage barge Griffson are in Green Cove on Stephens Passage, a waterway that separates the north shore of the Glass Peninsula on Admiralty Island from Douglas Island, about 86 miles (138 km) northeast of Sitka and 12 miles (19 km)...
by CoastView | Jul 21, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Oregon, Parks
Cape Lookout is a narrow basalt headland about 2 miles (3.2 km) long with vertical sea cliffs 800 feet (244 m) high in Cape Lookout State Park and the Siuslaw National Forest, about 26 miles (42 km) north of Lincoln City and 11 miles (18 km) southwest of Tillamook,...
by CoastView | Jul 20, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Rivers, Shipwrecks
SS Portland is a shipwreck at the mouth of the Katalla River, near the abandoned oil prospecting community of Katalla, about 70 miles (113 km) west-northwest of Yakataga and 48 miles (77 km) southeast of Cordova, Alaska. The name for Katalla is derived from the Eyak...
