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Akutan Airport, Akun Island

Akutan Airport is a State of Alaska owned public-use airport on Akun Island that serves the community of Akutan which is 6 miles (10 km) west-southwest across Akutan Bay on Akutan Island, about 766 miles (1,235 km) southwest of Anchorage and 44 miles (71 km) northeast of Dutch Harbor, Alaska.

Rolph Slough, Nushagak Point

Rolph, or Ralph Slough is a tidal creek in an area of grass meadows and numerous unnamed sloughs that cut through vast mud flats on the left bank near the mouth of the Nushagak River at Nushagak Point, about 55 miles (89 km) west-northwest of Naknek and 6 miles (10 km) south of Dillingham, Alaska.

Kake, Kupreanof Island

Kake is a Tlingit village on the northeastern shore of Keku Strait, on the northwest shore of Kupreanof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 95 miles (153 km) south-southeast of Juneau and 39 miles (63 km) west-northwest of Peterburg, Alaska.

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Diamond NN Cannery, South Naknek

Diamond NN Cannery, South Naknek

Diamond NN is a historic cannery in South Naknek at the mouth of the Naknek River that flows into Kvichak Bay, an arm of Bristol Bay, about 56 miles (90 km) southeast of Dillingham and 13 miles (21 km) west of King Salmon, Alaska.

Kasilof River, Kenai Peninsula

Kasilof River, Kenai Peninsula

Kasilof River starts at the outlet of Tustumena Lake on the Kenai Peninsula and flows generally northwest for 17 miles (27 km) through the Kenai Lowland to Cook Inlet, draining a watershed of 93,275 acres (37,747 ha), about 51 miles (82 km) north-northeast of Homer and 13 miles (21 km) south-southwest of Kenai, Alaska.

Bering River, Controller Bay

Bering River, Controller Bay

Bering River starts from a series of ice-marginal lakes and streams draining from the Martin River, Steller, and Bering glaciers, and flows generally south-southwest for 18 miles ( km) to Controller Bay on the Gulf of Alaska, about 63 miles (102 km) west of Cape Yakutaga and 58 miles (94 km) southeast of Cordova, Alaska.

Ivanof Bay, Alaska Peninsula

Ivanof Bay, Alaska Peninsula

Ivanof Bay is a community on the Alaska Peninsula at the head of Ivanof Bay, an estuary of the Ivanof River that starts at an elevation of roughly 1000 feet (305 m) on the south flank of the Alaska Peninsula and flows generally southwest for 9 miles (15 km) draining a watershed of 15,545 acres (6,291 ha), about 57 miles (92 km) northeast of Sand Point and 13 miles (21 km) west of Perryville, Alaska.

Washington Bay, Kuiu Island

Washington Bay, Kuiu Island

Washington Bay trends east for 2 miles (3.2 km) on the northwest coast of Kuiu Island and is the site of a historical herring reduction facility near the head of the bay that is flanked by steep mountains rising abruptly to 2,800 feet (853 m) on the north and 2,200 feet (671 m) on the south, about 143 miles (230 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 24 miles (39 km) southwest of Kake, Alaska.

Ikatan Peninsula, Unimak Island

Ikatan Peninsula, Unimak Island

Ikatan Peninsula is connected to the northeastern tip of Unimak Island by a sand spit or tombolo separating Ikatan Bay to the north from Otter Cove to the south and is the site of the historical community of Ikatan, about 143 miles (230 km) northeast of Unalaska and 8 miles (13 km) south-southeast of False Pass, Alaska.

Hunter Bay, Prince of Wales Island

Hunter Bay, Prince of Wales Island

Hunter Bay is the estuary for several watersheds that support important sockeyes salmon populations and the site of a historical salmon cannery on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island near the abandoned village of Klinkwan, about 89 miles (143 km) northwest of Prince Rupert, British Columbia, and 42 miles (68 km) southwest of Ketchikan, Alaska.

Calder, Shakan Strait

Calder, Shakan Strait

Calder is a mining camp for a historic marble quarry and present-day limestone mine situated at the mouth of Marble Creek on Shakan Strait near the entrance to El Capitan Passage on Prince of Wales Island, about 92 miles (148 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 12 miles (19 km) south-southeast of Port Protection, Alaska.

Squaw Harbor, Unga Island

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, 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.

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