Go to Cape Mendocino Cape Mendocino is the westernmost point on the Lost Coast, about 210 miles (338 km) northwest of San Francisco, and 28 miles (45 km) southwest of Eureka, California. The cape was named by Spanish explorer Andrés de Urdaneta in 1565 in honor of...
Go to Cape Pankof Cape Pankof is a point of land on the southeast tip of the lkatan Peninsula on the southeast coast of Unimak Island, 148 miles (239 km) northeast of Dutch Harbor and 18 miles (29 km) southeast of False Pass, Alaska. The Russian name was first...
Go to Siuslaw River The Siuslaw River enters the Pacific Ocean about 53 miles (85 km) west of Eugene and 43 miles (69 km) south of Newport, Oregon. Florence is a coastal community at the mouth of the river that was originally inhabited by the Siuslaw Tribe. The origin...
Go to McKeon Flats The McKeon Flats is located at the head of Neptune Bay on the south shore of Kachemak Bay, about 14 miles (23 km) northeast of Seldovia and 9 miles (14.5 km) southeast of Homer, Alaska. The local name was first reported in the 1940s on maps by the...
Go to Lax-Kw'alaams Lax-Kw’alaams is a Tsimshian community on Port Simpson in northern Chatham Sound, 76 miles (123 km) southeast of Ketchikan, and 18 miles (29 km) north-northwest of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. In 1834, the Hudson’s Bay Company...
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