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Cape Pole, Kosciusko Island
Cape Pole is a historical logging community at Cape Pole on the eastern shore of Fishermans Harbor on Kosciusko Island, about 92 miles (148 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 6.7 miles (11 km) west of Edna Bay, Alaska.
Nash Harbor, Nunivak Island
Nash Harbor is a historic settlement situated at the outlet of a lagoon on the south shore of an embayment also named Nash Harbor bounded by Cape Algonquin to the west and Chingeeruk Point to the east, on the north coast of Nunivak Island, about 96 miles (155 km) south-southwest of Hooper Bay and 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Mekoryuk, Alaska.
Christmas Island, Security Bay
Christmas Island is the largest of several small reefs and islets on the western coastline and near the entrance to Security Bay on Kuiu Island, about 45 miles (72 km) south of Angoon and 18 miles (29 km) southwest of Kake, Alaska.
Kaktovik, Barter Island
Kaktovik is a community on Barter Island and historically was a major trading center for the Iñupiat from Alaska and Inuit from Canada, situated between the Arctic Coastal Plain and the Beaufort Sea with Arey Lagoon to the west and Kaktovik Lagoon to the east, about 113 miles (182 km) east of Deadhorse and 66 miles (106 km) west-northwest of Gordon, Alaska.
Saxman, Revillagigedo Island
Saxman is a community on the west coast of Revillagigedo Island on Tongass Narrows across from Pennock Island, about 86 miles (138 km) northwest of Prince Rupert and 3 miles (5 km) southwest of Ketchikan, Alaska.
Cape Espenberg, Seward Peninsula
Espenberg is a historic Iñupiaq settlement and present-day fish camp at Cape Espenberg, a peninsula composed of a series of dune-covered beach ridges on the Chukchi Sea coast of the Seward Peninsula that extends eastward into Kotzebue Sound, about 63 miles (101 km) east-northeast of Shishmaref and 43 miles (69 km) southwest of Kotzebue, Alaska.
Kingigin, Cape Prince of Wales
Kingigin is an Iñupiat village, also known as Wales, situated at the mouth of Village Creek, on a series of ancient beach ridges separating Lopp Lagoon to the east from the Bering Strait to the west, on the Seward Peninsula at Cape Prince of Wales, about 73 miles (118 km) southwest of Shishmaref and 27 miles (44 km) southeast of Diomede, Alaska.
Chenik, Kamishak Bay
Chenik was a historical community at the mouth of Chenik Creek, between Chenik Lake to the west and Chenik Head to the east, on the west shore of Kamishak Bay, about 98 miles (158 km) northeast of King Salmon and 98 miles (158 km) southwest of Homer, Alaska.
Kwigillingok, Kuskokwim Bay
Kwigillingok is a Central Yup’ik community situated on the west bank of the Kwigillingok River about 2 miles (3.2 km) inland from the northern shore of Kuskokwim Bay, about 80 miles (129 km) south-southwest of Bethel and 45 miles (72 km) west-northwest of Quinhagak, Alaska.
Squaw Harbor, Unga Island
Squaw Harbor is a historical cannery and fishing village situated on the north shore of Baralof Bay on the east coast of Unga Island in the Shumagin Islands, about 258 miles (415 km) east-northeast of Unalaska and 7 miles (11 km) south-southwest of Sand Point, Alaska.
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