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Seal Island, Prince William Sound

Seal Island is forested and uninhabited, about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) across, and located in Prince William Sound, about 7 miles (11 km) east of Knight Island, and 58 miles (93 km) west-southwest of Cordova, 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.

Niblack, Moira Sound

Niblack is a historic mining community at the head of Niblack Anchorage, an estuary that extends west for 2.5 miles (4 km) off Moira Sound, on the southeast coast of Prince of Wales Island, about 28 miles (45 km) southwest of Ketchikan and 28 miles (45 km) southeast of Hydaburg, Alaska.

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Cannery Cove, Pybus Bay

Cannery Cove, Pybus Bay

Cannery Cove is an embayment on the western shore of Pybus Bay in the Kootznoowoo Wilderness, on the southern coast of Admiralty Island, about 70 miles (113 km) south of Juneau and 24 miles (39 km) north-northwest of Kake, Alaska.

North Entrance, Big Salt Lake

North Entrance, Big Salt Lake

North Entrance is a channel connecting Big Salt Lake to Shinaku Inlet at the head of San Alberto Bay on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska, about 66 miles (106 km) south-southwest of Wrangell and 5 miles (8 km) north of Klawock, Alaska.

Cape Suckling, Suckling Hills

Cape Suckling, Suckling Hills

Cape Suckling is an area of wave eroded rocky reefs backed by dunes, and farther inland lie the Suckling Hills and the terminus of the Bering Glacier, about 150 miles (241 km) west-northwest of Yakutat and 73 miles (117 km) southeast of Cordova, Alaska.

Canoe Passage, Hawkins Island

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, 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, 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, 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

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, 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, 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.

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