by CoastView | Jun 24, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands
Refuge Rock is in Partition Cove on the eastern shore of Sitkalidak Island, about 54 miles (87 km) southwest of Kodiak and 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Old Harbor, Alaska. Partition Cove is separated from McDonald Lagoon by a narrow isthmus. Partition Cove was named...
by CoastView | Jun 23, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Natural History, Parks, Rivers, Waterfalls
McNeil River starts from glaciers and alpine lakes in the Aleutian Range of the Alaska Peninsula and flows generally northeast for 35 miles (56 km) to McNeil Cove in Kamishak Bay, 103 miles (166 km) southwest of Homer and 101 miles (163 km) northwest of Kodiak,...
by CoastView | Jun 22, 2024 | 2024, Historical, Islands, Lighthouses, Oregon
Tillamook Rock is the site of a deactivated lighthouse located about 1.3 miles (2km) west of Tillamook Head in the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge, about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Astoria and 34 miles (39 km) north-northwest of Tillamook, Oregon. The...
by CoastView | Jun 21, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Shipwrecks
Arness Dock is in Nikiski Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, about 58 miles (94 km) southwest of Anchorage and 13 miles (21 km) north-northwest of Kenai, Alaska. Nikiski Bay is named for a former Dena’ina village and boat landing reported as “Nikishka No....
by CoastView | Jun 20, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Lighthouses, Parks, Shipwrecks
Active Pass is a narrow strait about 3.4 miles (5.5 km) long separating Mayne Island from Galiano Island in the southern Gulf Islands, about 16.4 miles (26.5 km) north-northeast of Sidney and 12.5 miles (20 km) southwest of Tsawwassen, British Columbia. The pass was...
by CoastView | Jun 19, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Lighthouses, Shipwrecks
The Scotch Cap Light is located on the southwest corner of Unimak Island, and the eastern shore of Unimak Pass, about 714 miles (1151 km) southwest of Anchorage and 81 miles (131 km) northeast of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. The light provides a navigational aid at the...
by CoastView | Jun 18, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Parks
Icy Bay is on the Gulf of Alaska coast in Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve, about 154 miles (248 km) southeast of Cordova and 65 miles (105 km) northwest of Yakutat, Alaska. Until the beginning of the 20th century, the bay entrance was blocked by a...
by CoastView | Jun 17, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Natural History, Parks
The Semidi Islands are a group of rocks, reefs, and islands lying off the coast of the Alaska Peninsula in the Gulf of Alaska, about 92 miles (148 km) east-northeast of Perryville, and 61 miles (98 km) east of Chignik, Alaska. The largest islands of the group are...
by CoastView | Jun 16, 2024 | 2024, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Oregon, Rivers
Yachats is a small community at the mouth of the Yachats River on the central Oregon coast, about 54 miles (87 km) northwest of Eugene and 22 miles (35 km) south of Newport, Oregon. The Yachats River flows through the Coast Range for about 12 miles ((19 km) and has a...
by CoastView | Jun 15, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Historical, Islands, Lighthouses
WLV-196 Umatilla was the last lightship to mark Umatilla Reef off Washington state and in 2005 was moored on the north shore of Pennock Island in Southeast Alaska, about 2.75 miles (4.4 km) northwest of Saxman and 0.75 miles (1.2 km) southwest of Ketchikan, Alaska....
