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Canoe Passage, Hawkins Island
Canoe Passage is a State of Alaska Marine Park covering 2,507 acres (1,015 ha), encompassing both shores of a small-boat passage running northwest–southeast through Hawkins Island, in southeastern Prince William Sound, about 44 miles (71 km) south-southeast of Valdez and 11 miles (18 km) west of Cordova, Alaska.
Cape Lewis, Lisburne Peninsula
Cape Lewis is a 1,222-foot (372 m) promontory with steep sea cliffs situated between Ukinyak Creek to the north and Kiliktakgot Creek to the south, 11 miles (18 km) south of Cape Lisburne on the Lisburne Peninsula, about 107 miles (172 km) southwest of Point Lay and 27 miles (44 km) north-northeast of Point Hope, Alaska.
Dry Strait, Stikine River Delta
Dry Strait is a tidal channel in the Stikine Flats, part of the Stikine River delta separating Mitkof Island to the west from Dry Island to the east in the Stikine-LeConte Wilderness, about 21 miles (34 km) southeast of Petersburg and 11 miles (18 km) north-northwest of Wrangell, Alaska.
Takli Island, Amalik Bay
Takli Island is in Amalik Bay, between Cape Ilktugitak to the southwest and Cape Atushagvik to the northeast, along the Shelikof Strait coast of the Alaska Peninsula in Katmai National Park and Preserve, about 154 miles (248 kilometers) southwest of Homer and 81 miles (130 kilometers) west-northwest of Kodiak, Alaska.
Pitmegea River, Cape Sabine
The Pitmegea River originates at an elevation of about 1,300 feet (396 meters) in the De Long Mountains of the western Brooks Range, and flows northwest for 37 miles (60 kilometers) to the Chukchi Sea at Cape Sabine, about 70 miles (113 kilometers) south-southwest of Point Lay and 66 miles (106 kilometers) northeast of Point Hope, Alaska.
James Lagoon, McCarty Fjord
James Lagoon is a drowned cirque basin about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) wide, partially enclosed by the remains of a terminal moraine, on the western shore of McCarty Fjord in Kenai Fjords National Park, about 51 miles (82 km) southwest of Seward and 40 miles (64 km) east-southeast of Homer, Alaska.
Juneau, Gastineau Channel
Juneau is the state capital, situated at the mouth of Gold Creek on Gastineau Channel, about 93 miles (150 km) northeast of Sitka and 87 miles (140 km) south-southeast of Skagway, Alaska.
Yale Glacier, College Fjord
Yale Glacier is a massive tidewater glacier in College Fjord of Prince William Sound that starts at an elevation of 9,270 feet (2,826 m) between Mount Cardozo and Mount Einstein in the Chugach Mountains and flows generally southwest for 17 miles (27 km) to Yale Arm, about 48 miles (77 km) northeast of Whittier and 43 miles (69 km) west-northwest of Valdez, Alaska.
Old Sitka, Starrigavan Bay
Old Sitka is the site of a historical Russian settlement called Redoubt Saint Archangel Michael on the southern shore of Starrigavan Bay in Sitka Sound on the west coast of Baranof Island, about 232 miles (373 km) southeast of Yakutat and 5.5 miles (9 km) north of Sitka, Alaska.
Scidmore Bay, Gilbert Peninsula
Scidmore Bay, enclosed by the Gilbert Peninsula to the east and the Fairweather Mountains to the west, lies in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 119 miles (192 km) southeast of Yakutat and 43 miles (69 km) northwest of Gustavus, Alaska.
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