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Harrison Lagoon, Prince William Sound

Harrison Lagoon is about 0.5 miles (800 m) across, located on the west side of Port Wells in Prince William Sound, 66 miles (106 km) west-southwest of Valdez and 22 miles (35.5 km) northeast of Whittier, Alaska.

Chil Bo San No. 6, Spray Cape

Chil Bo San No. 6 is a shipwreck on Spray Cape, a conspicuous headland on the west coast of Unalaska Island between Skan Bay to the north and Pumicestone Bay to the south, about 85 miles (137 km) northeast of Nikolski and 32 miles (52 km) southwest of Dutch Harbor, Alaska.

Pitmegea River, Cape Sabine

The Pitmegea River originates at an elevation of about 1,300 feet (396 meters) in the De Long Mountains of the western Brooks Range, and flows northwest for 37 miles (60 kilometers) to the Chukchi Sea at Cape Sabine, about 70 miles (113 kilometers) south-southwest of Point Lay and 66 miles (106 kilometers) northeast of Point Hope, Alaska.

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Fort Columbia, Chinook Point

Fort Columbia, Chinook Point

Fort Columbia is a historical military facility situated on Chinook Point that defended the entrance to the Columbia River from 1896 to 1947 and is now a state park, about 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Ilwaco and 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Astoria, Oregon.

Crab River, Devastation Channel

Crab River, Devastation Channel

Crab River flows into Devastation Channel near the entrance to Alan Reach of Gardner Canal, about 81 miles (130km) southeast of Prince Rupert and 28 miles (45km) south-southwest of Kitamaat, British Columbia.

San Juan Cove, Tutka Bay

San Juan Cove, Tutka Bay

San Juan Cove is a small embayment on the north shore of Tutka Bay, a deglaciated fjord on the southern shore of Kachemak Bay in the Kenai Mountains in Kachemak Bay State Park, about 13 miles (21 km) south-southeast of Homer and 11 miles (18 km) east-northeast of Seldovia, Alaska.

Samalga, Fox Islands

Samalga, Fox Islands

Samalga Island is 4 miles (6 km) long and 0.5 miles (0.8 km) wide located between Umnak Island to the east and the Islands of Four Mountains to the west, approximately 317 miles (510 km) east-northeast of Adak and 18 miles (29 km) southwest of Nikolski, Alaska.

Devil’s Slide, San Pedro Headlands

Devil’s Slide, San Pedro Headlands

Devil’s Slide is on the western flank of San Pedro and Montara Mountains in the San Pedro Headlands, about 3 miles (5 km) north of Montara and 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of the Linda Mar District of Pacifica, California.

Meares Glacier, Unakwik Inlet

Meares Glacier, Unakwik Inlet

Meares Glacier starts at an elevation of about 7200 feet (2195 m) in the Chugach Mountains between Mount Michelson to the north and Columbia Peak to the south and trends generally southwest for 16 miles (26 km) to Unakwik Inlet in Prince William Sound, about 47 miles (76 km) northeast of Whittier and 40 miles (64 km) west of Valdez, Alaska.

Chatham Cannery, Sitkoh Bay

Chatham Cannery, Sitkoh Bay

Chatham is a historical salmon cannery and village on the west shore of Sitkoh Bay on Chichagof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 58 miles (93 km) south-southwest of Juneau and 13 miles (21 km) west of Angoon, Alaska.

Westport, Point Chehalis

Westport, Point Chehalis

Westport is a community located on Point Chehalis, a peninsula between South Bay and the Pacific Ocean that partially encloses Grays Harbor from the south, about 53 miles (85 km) north-northwest of Astoria and 15 miles (24 km) west-southwest of Aberdeen, Washington.

SS Uzbekistan, Darling River

SS Uzbekistan, Darling River

The wreck of the SS Uzbekistan is situated at the mouth of the Darling River, which flows south for 6 miles (10 km) through the heavily logged interior forests of southwestern Vancouver Island, about 31 miles (50 km) northwest of Port Renfrew and 9 miles (15 km) south-southeast of Bamfield, British Columbia.

Nanwalek, English Bay

Nanwalek, English Bay

Nanwalek is a community on English Bay, a small embayment on the eastern shore of lower Cook Inlet at the southern entrance to Port Graham on the Kenai Peninsula, about 24 miles (38 km) southwest of Homer and 3.4 miles (5.5 km) west of the village of Port Graham, Alaska.

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