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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.
Naknek, Kvichak Bay
Naknek is a community situated on a bluff overlooking the northern bank of the mouth of the Naknek River, at Kvichak Bay which forms the northeastern arm of Bristol Bay, about 56 miles (90 km) southeast of Dillingham and 13 miles (21 km) west-northwest of King Salmon, Alaska.
Stebbins, Saint Michael Island
Stebbins is a community in southern Norton Sound situated on a small sand spit along the northern shore of Saint Michael Island at Cape Stephens, which is in the lee of Stuart Island to the northwest and separated by a channel 1 mile (1.6 km) wide named Stephens Pass, about 117 miles (188 km) southeast of Nome and 52 miles (84 km) southwest of Unalakleet, Alaska.
Kaflia Bay, Katmai National Park and Preserve
Kaflia Bay is a funnel-shaped embayment that extends west for 4 miles (6.5 km) from the coast of Shelikof Strait between Cape Ugyak to the north and Cape Gull to the south in Katmai National Park and Preserve, about 93 miles (150 km) southeast of King Salmon and 75 miles (121 km) northwest of Kodiak, Alaska.
Meyers Chuck, Cleveland Peninsula
Meyers Chuck is a community situated along the shoreline of a natural harbor protected mostly by Misery Island and Meyers Island, on the Cleveland Peninsula with Ernest Sound to the north and Clarence Strait to the west, about 50 miles (80 km) south of Wrangell and 37 miles (60 km) northwest of Ketchikan, Alaska.
Gambell, Saint Lawrence Island
Gambell is a community on Saint Lawrence Island at Northwest Cape in the northern Bering Sea on a broad, shallow-water continental shelf that extends from western Alaska to northeastern Russia, about 196 miles (316 km) southwest of Nome, Alaska, and 62 miles (100 km) southeast of Provideniya, Russia.
Karluk Village, Kodiak Island
Karluk Village is situated on the southern shore of Karluk Lagoon, an embayment formed by a barrier spit that partially encloses the mouth of the Karluk River, on the Shelikof Strait coast of Kodiak Island, about 77 miles (124 km) west-southwest of Kodiak and 44 miles (71 km) north-northwest of Akhiok, Alaska.
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