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...
by CoastView | Feb 2, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Amakdedori Creek drains a watershed of 17,781 acres (7,196 ha) on the eastern flank of the Aleutian Range and flows southeast for 10 miles (16 km) to Kamishak Bay, about 26 miles (42 km) southwest of Augustine Island, and 95 miles (153 km) southwest of Homer, Alaska....
by CoastView | Feb 1, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Coastal Features, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Shipwrecks
New Carissa was a freighter 639 feet (195 m) in length that grounded on North Spit in 1999, causing an oil spill about 5 miles (8 km) northwest of Coos Bay and 4 miles (6.5 km) west of the community of North Bend, Oregon. The U.S. Navy set explosives on the ship to...
by CoastView | Jan 31, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Developments, Embayments, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
The Dudiak Fishing Lagoon, also known as the Fishing Hole, is located on the Homer Spit, a peninsula projecting 4 miles (6.5 km) southeast from the northern shore of Kachemak Bay, about 14 miles (23 km) northeast of Seldovia and 4 miles (6.5 km) southeast of Homer,...
by CoastView | Jan 30, 2023 | 2023, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Parks
Siwash Rock is a sea stack on the western shoreline of Stanley Park in Burrard Inlet, between English Bay to the south and the entrance to Vancouver Harbour to the north, about 3 miles (5 km) northwest of downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. The formation is about 50...
by CoastView | Jan 29, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Land Use
Valdez Marine Terminal is located on the southern shore of Port Valdez, a fjord in northeastern Prince William Sound that is about 13 miles (21 km) long and trends west-east from Valdez Narrows at the head of Valdez Arm to the mouth of the Lowe River, about 124 miles...