by CoastView | Jun 14, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Developments, Historical, Islands, Lighthouses, Shipwrecks
Triple Island is the site of a large manned light station in Brown Passage, about 83 miles (134 km) south-southeast of Ketchikan and 22 miles (35 km) west-southwest of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. Brown Passage is a deep ocean channel connecting the western...
by CoastView | Jun 13, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Islands, Natural History, Parks
Mount Shishaldin is a volcano on Unimak Island that rises over 9,000 ft (2800 m) directly from the Pacific Ocean and is the highest of several volcanos on the island, about 120 miles (194 km) northeast of Dutch Harbor and 24 miles (39 km) west-southwest of False Pass,...
by CoastView | Jun 12, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Communities, Embayments, Historical
Chickaloon Bay is located on the Kenai Peninsula, about 46 miles (74 km) northeast of Kenai and 22 miles (35 km) south and across Turnagain Arm from Anchorage, Alaska. The first Europeans to explore this upper section of Cook Inlet were Russian fur traders employed by...
by CoastView | Jun 11, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, British Columbia, Historical, Natural History, Rivers
Kakwan Point is on the north bank of the Stikine River that starts in British Columbia and flows northwest and south for 330 miles (532 km) across the Alaska-Canada boundary to Eastern Passage, about 26 miles (42 km) southeast of Petersburg and 2 miles (3 km) north of...
by CoastView | Jun 10, 2024 | 2024, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Lighthouses, Oregon
The Cape Arago Light is the third of a series of light towers built on Gregory Point and Chiefs Island just south of the entrance to Coos Bay, about 8 miles (13 km) west-southwest of Coos Bay and 3 miles (5 km) west of Charleston, Oregon. The headland was originally...
by CoastView | Jun 9, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical
Teller is an Iñupiat village located at the base of a spit separating Port Clarence Bay from Grantley Harbor, about 59 miles (95 km) northwest of Nome and 6 miles (10 km) southeast of Brevig Mission, Alaska. The present village of Teller is on the southern shore of...
by CoastView | Jun 8, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Developments, Historical, Lighthouses
Carmanah Point is the site of a historic light station in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island that marks the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, about 65 miles (105 km) west-northwest of Victoria and 17 miles (27 km)...
by CoastView | Jun 7, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands
Nuchek is the site of a historical village and Russian trading post on Constantine Harbor at Port Etches on Hinchinbrook Island in Prince William Sound, about 56 miles (90 km) south-southwest of Valdez and 35 miles (56 km) southwest of Cordova, Alaska. The village was...
by CoastView | Jun 6, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Parks
Aniakchak Bay is on the Pacific coast of Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve that surrounds Mount Aniakchak, a caldera in the Aleutian Range, about 200 miles (323 km) southwest of Kodiak and 50 miles (81 km) northeast of Chignik, Alaska. The caldera is 6 miles...
by CoastView | Jun 5, 2024 | 2024, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Oregon, Rivers
North Bend is one of several communities on Coos Bay, an estuary on the southern Oregon coast, about 22 miles (35 km) south of Reedsport and 3 miles (4.8 km) north of the city of Coos Bay, Oregon. Coos Bay is the largest estuary that lies entirely within Oregon with...
