Mary Island is located between Felice Strait and Revillagigedo Channel, and roughly 25 miles (40 km) north of the Canadian border and 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Ketchikan, Alaska. Mary Island was named in 1880 by W.E. George, a local ship pilot. Mary Island is also...
Brownson Island is located off the southeast coast of Etolin Island and separated only by the narrow Canoe Passage, about 47 miles (75 km) north-northwest of Ketchikan and 36 miles (58 km) south of Wrangell, Alaska. Canoe passage was first described by Lieutenant...
Cape Tanak is a point of land on the north coast of Umnak Island in the Aleutian Islands, about 64 miles (103 km) southwest of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. The name was first published in 1852 by Captain Mikhail Tebenkov, of the Imperial Russian Navy, as “Cape...
The Will Rogers-Wiley Post Memorial is at Walakpa Bay, an estuary that extends 6 miles (10 km) east from the Chukchi Sea, and is located about 76 miles (123 km) northeast of Wainwright and 11 miles (18 km) southwest of Utqiaġvik, Alaska. In 1853, Commander Rochfort...
Sudden Stream starts at the outlet to Malaspina Lake at the terminus of the Malaspina Glacier and flows south for 2 miles (3.2 km) to Yakutat Bay, about 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Blizhni Point, and 18 miles (29 km) northwest of Yakutat, Alaska. The name was first...
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