by CoastView | Jul 9, 2024 | 2024, Coastal Features, Headlands, Lighthouses, Oregon
Cleft of the Rock Light is a privately owned lighthouse located on Cape Perpetua, at the mouth of North Cape Creek, about 21 miles (34 km) north of Florence and 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Yachats, Oregon. The lighthouse is named after the Fanny Crosby hymn He Hideth My...
by CoastView | Jul 8, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Chirikof Island is about 33,000 acres (13,000 ha) and part of the Kodiak Island Archipelago located in the western Gulf of Alaska, about 180 miles (290 km) southwest of Kodiak and 137 miles (221 km) east of Perryville, Alaska. Despite the extreme remoteness, the...
by CoastView | Jul 7, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Lighthouses, Parks
Fisgard Island Light Station is located in Royal Roads off the southern shore of Vancouver Island at the entrance to Esquimalt Harbour, about 3.6 miles (5.8 km) west of Victoria and in the community of Colwood, British Columbia. In 1846, Commander James Woods surveyed...
by CoastView | Jul 6, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Communities, Freshwater, Historical, Rivers
Kenai River flows into Cook Inlet on the western shore of the Kenai Peninsula, about 65 miles (105 km) southwest of Anchorage and at the community of Kenai, Alaska. In June 1787, Stepan Zaikov on Saint Pavel of the Lebedev-Lastochkin Company established a post at the...
by CoastView | Jul 5, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Historical, Islands
Craig is a community situated on Craig Island connected by a causeway to the western coast of Prince of Wales Island approximately 56 miles (90 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 220 miles (350 km) south of Juneau, Alaska. This is the largest town on Prince of Wales...
by CoastView | Jul 4, 2024 | 2024, Headlands, Historical, Lighthouses, Oregon, Parks, Shipwrecks
SS South Portland is a historical shipwreck on Cape Blanco, a prominent headland that extends 1.5 miles (2.4 km) into the Pacific Ocean with cliffs 200 feet (61 m) high, about 205 miles (331 km) southwest of Portland and 7 miles (11 km) north-northwest of Port Orford,...
by CoastView | Jul 3, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Parks
Platinum is a mining community located on the Smalls River at the base of South Spit in Goodnews Bay, about 123 miles (198 km) south of Bethel and 11 miles (18 km) southwest of the village of Goodnews, Alaska. Goodnews Bay was originally called Imagpiguak by the...
by CoastView | Jul 2, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Islands, Parks
Sidney Island is one of the southern Gulf Islands located in Haro Strait, about 45 miles (73 km) south-southwest of Vancouver and 2.8 miles (4.5 km) east of Sidney, British Columbia. The original name for the island was Sallas Island, but in 1859, it was renamed by...
by CoastView | Jul 1, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands
Kaguyak is an abandoned Alutiiq village on the Aliulik Peninsula on the southeastern coast of Kodiak Island at the head of Kaguyak Bay, about 165 miles (266 km) southeast of King Salmon and 81 miles (131 km) southwest of the city of Kodiak, Alaska. In 1849, the...
by CoastView | Jun 30, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Canneries, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Islands
Alitak is a historical salmon cannery and fish processing plant located on Lazy Bay at the southern end of Kodiak Island, about 152 miles (245 km) southeast of King Salmon and 92 miles (148 km) southwest of Kodiak, Alaska. The cannery is named after Cape Alitak, a...
