Skagway is a community at the mouth of the Skagway River, near the head of Taiya Inlet, about 90 miles (145 km) northwest of Juneau and 16 miles (26 km) north-northeast of Haines, Alaska. The town is named after the Skagway River that leads to White Pass. The name...
Thor’s Well is at Cook’s Chasm, a fissure in the rock approximately 400 feet (122 m) long and 60 feet (18 m) wide between Captain Cook Point and Cape Perpetua, about 20 miles (32 km) north of Florence and 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Yachats, Oregon. The...
Cenotaph Island is approximately in the middle of Lituya Bay, a fjord formed primarily by the Crillon and Lituya glaciers in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 117 miles (189 km) west-northwest of Juneau and 97 miles (156 km) southeast of Yakutat, Alaska....
Discovery Island is part of a group of islands in Oak Bay off the southeastern tip of Vancouver Island, about 17 miles (27 km) southeast of Sidney and 6.5 miles (10.5 km) east of downtown Victoria, British Columbia. Discovery Island is about 2.5 miles (4 km) offshore...
Tuxedni Bay is an estuary that extends southeast for 14 miles (23 km) from the mouth of Tuxedni River to Cook Inlet at Chisik Island, about 59 miles (95 km) northwest of Homer and 57 miles (92 km) southwest of Kenai, Alaska. The Dena’ina name for the bay was...
