by CoastView | Apr 2, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Developments, Embayments, Hatcheries, Islands, Natural History
Lake Bay is the site of a salmon hatchery on the southern coast of Esther Island in northwestern Prince William Sound, and the deglaciated fjord extends 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northwest from Wells Passage, about 63 miles (101 km) west-southwest of Valdez and 20 miles (32...
by CoastView | Apr 1, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Canneries, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Gambier Bay is the site of an infamous shipwreck and a historical salmon cannery operated by Admiralty Trading Company near Stephens Passage on the east coast of Admiralty Island, about 61 miles ( km) northwest of Petersburg and 59 miles (km) south-southeast of...
by CoastView | Mar 31, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
A delta of 33,000 acres (13,355 ha) is formed by the Eel River, which starts at an elevation of 6,245 feet (1,903 m) on the southern flank of Bald Mountain in Mendocino National Forest and flows generally northwest for 196 miles (315 km) draining a watershed of...
by CoastView | Mar 30, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Canneries, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History
Waterfall is a historic cannery situated on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island on Ulloa Channel, adjacent to Port Refugio on Suemez Island, approximately 145 miles (234 km) southeast of Sitka and 60 miles (97 km) west of Ketchikan, Alaska. The cannery was named...
by CoastView | Mar 29, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Parks
Fort Stevens was constructed during the American Civil War as an earthwork battery on the south shore at the mouth of the Columbia River on Point Adams, about 15 miles (24 km) north of Seaside and 6 miles (10 km) west-northwest of Astoria, Oregon. It was originally...
by CoastView | Mar 28, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
Halibut Cove is a small community lining the shores of The Narrows, a protected waterway separating Ismailof Island to the north from the Kenai Peninsula to the south, on the southeastern shore of Kachemak Bay, about 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Seldovia and 11 miles...
by CoastView | Mar 27, 2023 | 2023, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History
Lawyer Islands are located in Malacca Passage, part of the Canadian Inside Passage between Porcher Island to the south and the Tsimpsean Peninsula to the north and just off the mouth of the Skeena River, about 102 miles (165 km) southeast of Ketchikan and 13 miles (20...
by CoastView | Mar 26, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Developments, Headlands, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses
Cape Hinchinbrook is a headland with a light station on the southwestern point of Hinchinbrook Island in Prince William Sound, about 79 miles (127 km) southeast of Whittier and 37 miles (60 km) southwest of Cordova, Alaska. The cape was named in 1778 by Captain James...
by CoastView | Mar 25, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Mines, Natural History
Claim Point forms the western shore of Chrome Bay at the northern entrance to Port Chatham on the Kenai Peninsula, the site of a historical chromite mine, about 100 miles (162 km) north-northwest of Kodiak and 33 miles (53 km) south-southwest of Homer, Alaska. Port...
by CoastView | Mar 24, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Communities, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History
Gwent Cove is a small community at the site of the historical Hidden Inlet fishing village and cannery located adjacent to and west of the entrance to Hidden Inlet, an estuary that trends generally north for 6 miles (9.7 km) from the western shore of Pearse Canal, 45...