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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.

Port Moller, Moller Bay

Port Moller is a small community clustered around a historic salmon cannery on Moller Bay, an embayment on the Bering Sea coast of the Alaska Peninsula near the western margin of Bristol Bay, about 93 miles (150 km) northeast of King Cove and 87 miles (140 km) west-southwest of Chignik, Alaska.

Cape Fanshaw, Frederick Sound

Cape Fanshaw is a low wooded point at the junction of Stephens Passage and Frederick Sound, about 83 miles (134 km) south of Juneau and 68 miles (110 km) east-northeast of Sitka, Alaska.

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Kiwalik, Spafarief Bay

Kiwalik, Spafarief Bay

Kiwalik is a historical Iñupiat hunting and fishing camp, that became a major logistical base for mining activities in the Candle area, situated on a spit between Kawalik Lagoon to the south and Spafarief Bay to the north on the northeast coast of the Seward Peninsula, about 148 miles (238 km) northeast of Nome and 64 miles (103 km) south-southeast of Kotzebue, Alaska.

Point Possession, Cook Inlet

Point Possession, Cook Inlet

Point Possession is a headland on the northern shore of the Kenai Peninsula near the confluence of Cook Inlet and Turnagain Arm, about 44 miles (71 km) northeast of Kenai and 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Anchorage, Alaska.

Elephant Point, Eschscholtz Bay

Elephant Point, Eschscholtz Bay

Elephant Point is a headland and the site of a fish camp near a historical reindeer station in Eschscholtz Bay at the head of Kotzebue Sound, about 56 miles (90 km) southeast of Kotzebue and 20 miles (32 km) north-northwest of Buckland, Alaska.

Knik Village, Knik Arm

Knik Village, Knik Arm

Knik village is a historic Dena’ina community situated between the northwest shore of Knik Arm in Cook Inlet to the east and Knik Lake to the west, about 18 miles (29 km) north-northeast of Anchorage and 13 miles (21 km) southwest of Wasilla, Alaska.

Cape Pole, Kosciusko Island

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, 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, 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, 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, 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

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.

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