by CoastView | Dec 29, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Best of 2022, Biodiversity, Canneries, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Natural History
Snug Harbor is a historical cannery located along a bight on the west coast of Chisik Island, at the southern end of Tuxedni Channel, on the western shore of Cook Inlet, about 51 miles (82 km) northwest of Homer and 56 miles (90 km) southwest of Kenai, Alaska. Chisik...
by CoastView | Dec 28, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Headlands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Franklin Point is located in the Año Nuevo State Reserve, 7.3 miles (12 km) south-southeast of Pescadero and 22 miles (35 km) northwest of Santa Cruz, California. It is named after the clipper ship Sir John Franklin that which went aground here in dense fog in 1865....
by CoastView | Dec 27, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use
King Cove is a small community on the Alaska Peninsula located partially on a spit separating King Cove Bay and King Cove Lagoon, about 18 air miles (29 km) southeast of the village of Cold Bay, Alaska. King Cove Bay is 15 miles (24 km) across and lies between Cold...
by CoastView | Dec 26, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Best of 2022, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Shipwrecks, Washington
Minter is a community on the northwestern shore of Henderson Bay, at the head of Carr Inlet in South Puget Sound, about 24 miles (39 km) southwest of Seattle and 5.5 miles (9 km) northwest of Gig Harbor, Washington. In 1792, this area was first explored by Lieutenant...
by CoastView | Dec 25, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
Bootlegger Cove, also known as Little Jakolof Cove, is the local name for a small shallow embayment on the southeastern shore of Kachemak Bay, about 12 miles (19 km) south of Homer and 7.6 miles (12 km) northwest of Seldovia, Alaska. The cove is surrounded by private...
by CoastView | Dec 24, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use
Bamfield is a community located on Barkley Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island, 32 miles (52 km) southwest of Port Alberni and 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Ucluelet, British Columbia. The community is divided by Bamfield Inlet and surrounded by Crown Land,...
by CoastView | Dec 23, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines
The Ross Adams is a historical uranium-thorium mine in the Tongass National Forest, located on the southeastern slopes of Bokan Mountain near the southern end of Prince of Wales Island, approximately 33 miles (53 km) southeast of Hydaburg and 38 air miles (61 km)...
by CoastView | Dec 22, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use
Funter Bay is on the west coast of the Mansfield Peninsula on Admiralty Island, about 32 miles (52 km) southeast of Gustavus and 14 miles (23 km) southwest of Juneau, Alaska. The bay was named in 1883 by William Healey Dall, of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, for...
by CoastView | Dec 21, 2022 | 2022, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Rivers
Ocean Roar is a small group of buildings at the mouth of Walker Creek on Tomales Bay, and formerly a community on the North Pacific Coast Railroad, about 2.3 miles (3.7 km) southwest of Tomales and 16 miles (26 km) west of Petaluma, California. Walker Creek originates...
by CoastView | Dec 20, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Harrison Lagoon is about 0.5 miles (800 m) across, located on the west side of Port Wells in Prince William Sound, 66 miles (106 km) west-southwest of Valdez and 22 miles (35.5 km) northeast of Whittier, Alaska. The local name was first reported in 1916 by J.W. Bagley...