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Coal Harbour, Holberg Inlet

Coal Harbour is a community located on the north side of Holberg Inlet in Quatsino Sound, about 220 miles (355 km) northwest of the city of Vancouver and 11 miles (18 km) southwest of Port Hardy, British Columbia.

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.

Rogue River, Gold Beach

Rogue River begins at Boundary Springs at an elevation of 5,320 feet (1,622 m) near the northern edge of Mount Mazama in Crater Lake National Park and drains a watershed of 3.3 million acres (1.3 million ha) while flowing generally west for 215 miles (346 km) through the Cascade Range and the Klamath Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, about 23 miles (37 km) south-southeast of Port Orford and at Gold Beach, Oregon.

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Bear Cove, Kachemak Bay

Bear Cove, Kachemak Bay

Bear Cove is a small embayment on the Kenai Peninsula that extends southeast for 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the southeastern coast of Kachemak Bay between Bear Island to the south and Chugachik Island to the north, about 57 miles (92 km) south of Kenai and 18 miles (29 km) northeast of Homer, Alaska.

Nikiski Terminal Wharf, East Foreland

Nikiski Terminal Wharf, East Foreland

Nikiski Terminal Wharf forms part of the Port of Nikiski petroleum facility in upper Cook Inlet on the west coast of the Kenai Peninsula at East Foreland, about 63 miles (101 km) southwest of Anchorage and 10 miles (16 km) north-northwest of Kenai, Alaska.

Cliff House, Point Lobos

Cliff House, Point Lobos

Cliff House is a former restaurant perched on the Point Lobos headland of the San Francisco Peninsula just north of Ocean Beach, overlooking Seal Rocks offshore and the site of the former Sutro Baths onshore, about 6.5 miles (10.5 km) west of downtown San Francisco and at the west end of the Richmond District of San Francisco, California.

Hoquiam River, Grays Harbor

Hoquiam River, Grays Harbor

Hoquiam River drains a watershed of 62,720 acres (25,382 ha) with three principal tributaries that merge into a single channel that trends generally south for 2.5 miles (4 km) to the confluence with the Chehalis River at the head of Grays Harbor between the communities of Hoquiam to the west and Aberdeen to the east, about 47 miles (76 km) west of Olympia and 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Westport, Washington.

White Alice, Anvil Mountain

White Alice, Anvil Mountain

White Alice is a historical communication station situated on Anvil Mountain at an elevation of 1,134 feet (345 m) on the Seward Peninsula, about 180 miles (290 km) southwest of Kotzebue and 5 miles (6.5 km) north-northeast of Nome, Alaska.

Northeast Cape, Saint Lawrence Island

Northeast Cape, Saint Lawrence Island

Northeast Cape is a headland at the far eastern end of Saint Lawrence Island, formed by the Kinipaghulghat Mountains, between Cape Kulowye to the west and Cape Seevooka to the south, about 133 miles (214 km) southwest of Nome and 96 miles (155 km) east-southeast of Gambell, Alaska.

Pysht River, Pillar Point

Pysht River, Pillar Point

Pysht River originates near Ellis Mountain on the Olympic Peninsula and flows generally northeast for 16 miles (26 km), draining a watershed of 29,632 acres (11,992 ha), to the Strait of Juan de Fuca at Pillar Point, about 31 miles (50 km) west-northwest of Port Angeles and 26 miles (42 km) southeast of Neah Bay, Washington.

Fritz Creek, Kachemak Bay

Fritz Creek, Kachemak Bay

Fritz Creek is a stream on the Kenai Peninsula that starts from a watershed divide between Lookout Mountain to the south and Bald Mountain to the north and flows generally south for 7 miles (11 km) to the north shore of Kachemak Bay, about 17 miles (27 km) southeast of Anchor Point and 6 miles (10 km) northeast of Homer, Alaska.

Napakiak, Kuskokwim River

Napakiak, Kuskokwim River

Napakiak is a village located on an island situated between the Kuskokwim River to the south and Johnson Slough to the north, about 167 miles (269 km) southeast of Emmonak and 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Bethel, Alaska.

Pacific Biological Laboratories, Cannery Row

Pacific Biological Laboratories, Cannery Row

Pacific Biological Laboratories is a small, unpainted, two-story wood-frame building toward the northwest end of Cannery Row that served as a biological supply company operated by Edward F. Ricketts from 1937 to 1948, on a small property on Monterey Bay now sandwiched between the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Intercontinental Hotel in Monterey, California.

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