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Samalga, Fox Islands
Samalga Island is 4 miles (6 km) long and 0.5 miles (0.8 km) wide located between Umnak Island to the east and the Islands of Four Mountains to the west, approximately 317 miles (510 km) east-northeast of Adak and 18 miles (29 km) southwest of Nikolski, Alaska.
Meares Glacier, Unakwik Inlet
Meares Glacier starts at an elevation of about 7200 feet (2195 m) in the Chugach Mountains between Mount Michelson to the north and Columbia Peak to the south and trends generally southwest for 16 miles (26 km) to Unakwik Inlet in Prince William Sound, about 47 miles (76 km) northeast of Whittier and 40 miles (64 km) west of Valdez, Alaska.
Chatham Cannery, Sitkoh Bay
Chatham is a historical salmon cannery and village on the west shore of Sitkoh Bay on Chichagof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 58 miles (93 km) south-southwest of Juneau and 13 miles (21 km) west of Angoon, Alaska.
Nanwalek, English Bay
Nanwalek is a community on English Bay, a small embayment on the eastern shore of lower Cook Inlet at the southern entrance to Port Graham on the Kenai Peninsula, about 24 miles (38 km) southwest of Homer and 3.4 miles (5.5 km) west of the village of Port Graham, Alaska.
Cordova, Orca Inlet
Cordova is a community on the southeastern shore of Orca Inlet across from Hawkins Island in eastern Prince William Sound, about 100 miles (160 km) east-southeast of Whittier and 45 miles (72 km) south-southeast of Valdez, Alaska.
Point Lonely, Pitt Point
Lonely was originally a Cold War Distant Early Warning facility until it was dismantled in 2018 and is now an unattended airstrip situated on the coast of the Beaufort Sea at Pitt Point between Drew Point on Smith Bay to the west and Cape Halkett on Harrison Bay to the east, about 83 miles (134 km) east-southeast of Utqiaġvik and 72 miles (116 km) northwest of Nuiqsut, Alaska.
Rose Inlet Cannery, Dall Island
Rose Inlet is a sheltered embayment, and the site of a historical salmon cannery, that extends southwest for 2.5 miles (4 km) from Kaigani Strait on the east coast of Dall Island, about 116 miles (187 km) northwest of Prince Rupert and 60 miles (97 km) southwest of Ketchikan, Alaska.
Port Graham, Kachemak Bay
Port Graham is a deglaciated fjord at the southern entrance to Kachemak Bay with an Alutiiq Sugpiaq community with the same name, on the southwestern end of the Kenai Peninsula, about 23 miles (37 km) south-southwest of Homer and 3.4 miles (5.5 km) east of Nanwalek, Alaska.
Emmonak, Yukon River Delta
Emmonak is a Yup’ik community located in the Yukon River Delta, approximately 14 miles (23 km) upstream from the Bering Sea, about 92 miles (148 km) west-southwest of Saint Michael and 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Nunam Iqua, Alaska.
Kirschner Lake, Kamishak Bay
Kirschner Lake is located on the northern shore of Kamishak Bay and the western coast of lower Cook Inlet at an elevation of approximately 80 feet (24 m), about 110 miles (177 km) northeast of King Salmon and 86 miles (138 km) west-southwest of Homer, Alaska.
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