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Cross Island, Beaufort Sea

Cross Island is an Arctic barrier island, about 2 miles (3.2 km) long, located between McClure Islands to the southeast and Midway Islands to the west on the Beaufort Sea coast, about 74 miles (119 km) northeast of Nuiqsut and 24 miles (40 km) north-northeast of Deadhorse, Alaska.

Harriman Glacier, Prince William Sound

Harriman Glacier is 8 miles (13 km) long, and trends northeast to its terminus at the head of Harriman Fjord, in Prince William Sound, about 74 miles (119 km) west-southwest of Valdez and 16 miles (26 km) northeast of Whittier, Alaska.

Copper River, Copper River Delta

The Copper River watershed drains about 24,000 square miles (62,000 sq km) in the Wrangell, Chugach, and Saint Elias Mountains and the mainstem flows for about 290 miles (470 km) to the Gulf of Alaska where it creates a wide delta, about 195 miles west-northwest of Yakutat and 30 miles southeast of Cordova, Alaska.

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Claim Point, Chrome Bay

Claim Point, Chrome Bay

Claim Point forms the western shore of Chrome Bay at the northern entrance to Port Chatham on the Kenai Peninsula, the site of a historical chromite mine, about 100 miles (162 km) north-northwest of Kodiak and 33 miles (53 km) south-southwest of Homer, Alaska.

Gwent Cove, Pearse Canal

Gwent Cove, Pearse Canal

Gwent Cove is a small community at the site of the historical Hidden Inlet fishing village and cannery located adjacent to and west of the entrance to Hidden Inlet, an estuary that trends generally north for 6 miles (9.7 km) from the western shore of Pearse Canal, 45 miles (72 km) north of Prince Rupert and 61 miles (98 km) southeast of Ketchikan, Alaska.

Guard Islands, Tongass Narrows

Guard Islands, Tongass Narrows

Guard Islands are separated from Vallenar Point at the northern tip of Gravina Island by Inside Passage, a channel that connects the northern entrance of Tongass Narrows to the east from Clarence Strait to the west, and are part of an island chain that includes Vallenar Rocks, about 73 miles (118 km) south-southeast of Wrangell and 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Ketchikan, Alaska.

Seldovia, Kachemak Bay

Seldovia, Kachemak Bay

Seldovia is a community situated on the eastern shore of Seldovia Bay and on the southern shore of Kachemak Bay in Cook Inlet, about 136 miles (219 km) southwest of Anchorage and 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Homer, Alaska.

Old Kukak Village, Devils Cove

Old Kukak Village, Devils Cove

Old Kukak was a historical Sugpiaq Alutiiq village located on Kukak Point that forms the northern shore of Devils Cove on the Alaska Peninsula in Katmai National Park and Preserve, about 94 miles (152 km) southwest of King Salmon and 74 miles (119 km) northwest of Kodiak, Alaska.

Viekoda Bay, Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge

Viekoda Bay, Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge

Viekoda Bay is a deglaciated fjord that extends southeast for 18 miles (29 km) from Shelikof Strait on the northwestern coast of Kodiak Island, with the southern shore in the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, about 134 miles (216 km) southwest of Homer and 26 miles (42 km) west-northwest of Kodiak, Alaska.

Cordova Rose, Odiak Slough

Cordova Rose, Odiak Slough

Cordova Rose is a landlocked barge that was converted to a guest lodge on the southern shore of Odiak Slough, a tidal embayment on Orca Inlet in Prince William Sound and adjacent to Eyak Lake, about 46 miles (74 km) south-southeast of Valdez and 0.5 miles (0.8 km) south of Cordova, Alaska.

Sadie Cove, Kachemak Bay

Sadie Cove, Kachemak Bay

Sadie Cove is a deglaciated fjord that extends generally northwest for 6.4 miles (10 km) from the mouth of the Sadie River to Eldred Passage on the southeastern shore of Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, about 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Homer and 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Seldovia, Alaska.

Kensington Mine, Lynn Canal

Kensington Mine, Lynn Canal

Kensington is a complex of underground mines and associated milling facilities on the southern flank of Lions Head Mountain in the Kakuhan Range between Lynn Canal to the west and Berners Bay to the east, about 47 miles (76 km) west-northwest of Juneau and 28 miles (45 km) south-southeast of Haines, Alaska.

Ship Cove, Port Conclusion

Ship Cove, Port Conclusion

Ship Cove is on the southern shore of Port Conclusion, an embayment at the southern tip of Baranof Island that extends south-southwest for 3 miles (4.8 km) from Chatham Strait, about 60 miles (97 km) south-southeast of Sitka and 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of Port Alexander, Alaska.

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