by CoastView | May 31, 2021 | 2021, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Lighthouses, Shipwrecks
The Scotch Cap Light is located on the southwest corner of Unimak Island, and the eastern shore of Unimak Pass, about 714 miles (1151 km) southwest of Anchorage and 81 miles (131 km) northeast of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. The light provides a navigational aid at the...
by CoastView | May 30, 2021 | 2021, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Parks
Icy Bay is on the Gulf of Alaska coast about 154 miles (248 km) southeast of Cordova and 65 miles (105 km) northwest of Yakutat, Alaska. Until the beginning of the 20th century, the bay entrance was blocked by a giant tidewater glacier that calved icebergs directly...
by CoastView | May 29, 2021 | 2021, Alaska, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Natural History, Parks
The Semidi Islands are a group of rocks, reefs, and islands lying off the coast of the Alaska Peninsula in the Gulf of Alaska, about 92 miles (148 km) east-northeast of Perryville, and 61 miles (98 km) east of Chignik, Alaska. The largest islands of the group are...
by CoastView | May 28, 2021 | 2021, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Oregon, Rivers
Yachats is a small community at the mouth of the Yachats River on the central Oregon coast, about 54 miles (87 km) northwest of Eugene and 22 miles (35 km) south of Newport, Oregon. The Yachats River flows through the Coast Range for about 12 miles ((19 km) and has a...
by CoastView | May 27, 2021 | 2021, Alaska, Historical, Islands, Lighthouses
WLV-196 Umatilla was the last lightship to mark Umatilla Reef off Washington state and in 2005 was moored on the north shore of Pennock Island in Southeast Alaska, about 2.75 miles (4.4 km) northwest of Saxman and 0.75 miles (1.2 km) southwest of Ketchikan, Alaska....