by CoastView | Feb 13, 2023 | 2023, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History
Staines Point is the southern tip of the Trial Islands which comprise two islets separated by a narrow channel situated in the Strait of Juan de Fuca about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) offshore from the southern end of Vancouver Island at McNeill Bay, about 3.5 miles (5.6 km)...
by CoastView | Feb 12, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Historical, Land Use, Shipwrecks
La Jenelle was a passenger ship that went aground and wrecked in 1970 on Silver Strand at Port Hueneme, a sandy beach created partly from dredged harbor sand about 1 mile (1.6 km) long and 450 feet(140 m) wide, about 33 miles (53 km) southeast of Santa Barbara and 3.3...
by CoastView | Feb 11, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
The steamship Yukon, bound from Goodnews Bay on the Kuskokwim River to Seattle in 1913, ran aground in fog and became a total loss on the northwest end of Sanak Island on what is now called Yukon Reef, about 156 miles (252 km) east-northeast of Dutch Harbor and 48...
by CoastView | Feb 10, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Headlands, Islands, Natural History
Point Elrington is a tied island connected by a gravel isthmus to the southwestern tip of Elrington Island in the Gulf of Alaska, about 96 miles (155 km) southwest of Cordova and 43 miles (69 km) east-southeast of Seward, Alaska. The point was named by sailing master...
by CoastView | Feb 9, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Coastal Features, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Parks, Rivers
Clatsop Spit is part of Fort Stevens State Park that projects north from the south bank of the Columbia River and the submerged portion forms the Columbia River Bar, about 80 miles (129 km) northwest of Portland and 9 miles (15 km) west-northwest of Astoria, Oregon....
by CoastView | Feb 8, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Kachemak, Land Use
Kachemak Selo is a small community at the head of Kachemak Bay adjacent to the Fox River Flats on the Kenai Peninsula, about 27 miles (44 km) southeast of Ninilchik and 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Homer, Alaska. The community is one of several settlements of Russian...
by CoastView | Feb 7, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Excursion Inlet is an embayment that extends 11 miles (18 km) north-northwest from the northern coast of Icy Strait to the mouth of Excursion River, about 38 miles (61 km) west-northwest of Juneau and 9.5 miles (15 km) east of Gustavus, Alaska. The bay was likely...
by CoastView | Feb 6, 2023 | 2023, British Columbia, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use
Butedale is a historical salmon cannery and community located on a small embayment adjacent to Butedale Falls along the Inside Passage on the northeast side of Princess Royal Island across from Work Island on the southern shore of Fraser Reach, which is part of...
by CoastView | Feb 5, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Mines
Treadwell is a historical gold mine on the eastern coast of Douglas Island on Gastineau Channel, about 1.2 miles (1.9 km) southeast of the community of Douglas and 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of Juneau, Alaska. It was named after John Treadwell who discovered the gold...
by CoastView | Feb 3, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Communities, Developments, Historical, Natural History, Shipwrecks
SS Palo Alto is a shipwreck that now serves as an artificial reef for marine life at Seacliff State Beach on the northern coast of Monterey Bay, about 6.4 miles (10.3 km) east of Santa Cruz and 0.9 miles (1.5 km) southwest of Aptos, California. Palo Alto was a tanker...
