by CoastView | Jan 31, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Developments, Embayments, January 2023, 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, January 2023, 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, January 2023, 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...
by CoastView | Jan 28, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, January 2023
Tyee is the site of a historical cannery and shore whaling station in Murder Cove, an embayment about 0.7 miles (1.2 km) across at the southern tip of Admiralty Island, about 24 miles (39 km) west of Kake and 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Baranof, Alaska. It was named...
by CoastView | Jan 27, 2023 | 2023, California, Headlands, Historical, January 2023, Shipwrecks
SS Dominator is a shipwrecked freighter that ran aground in 1961 on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, about 13 miles (21 km) west of Long Beach and 5.6 miles (9 km) south-southwest of Redondo Beach, California. The U.S. Coast Guard attempted to refloat the vessel but...
