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Icy Strait Point, Port Frederick
Icy Strait Point is a restored historic salmon cannery situated on Cannery Point, on the south shore of Icy Strait and on the eastern shore at the mouth of Port Frederick, a deep embayment on the northeast coast of Chichagof Island, about 22 miles (35 km) south-southeast of Gustavus and 1.6 miles (2.6 km) north-northwest of Hoonah, Alaska.
Strawberry Hill, Point Bentinck
Strawberry Hill is formed by a series of uplifted beach ridges on Point Bentinck at the eastern extremity of Hinchinbrook Island, at the southern entrance to Strawberry Channel that separates the island from the mainland, about 53 miles (85 km) south of Valdez and 17 miles (27 km) southwest of Cordova, Alaska.
Fort Cronkhite, Marin Headlands
Fort Cronkhite is situated on the Marin Headlands and is a historic U.S. Army facility that supported Battery Townsley, part of the coastal artillery defenses of San Francisco Bay during World War II, and now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, about 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Stinson Beach and 8 miles (13 km) west-northwest of San Francisco, California.
Winema Beach, Oretown
Winema Beach is a strand adjacent to Winema Lake, originally the location of a townsite platted as Wi-Ne-Ma, near Oretown in southern Tillamook County, about 15 miles (24 km) north of Lincoln City and 4 miles (6 km) south of Pacific City, Oregon.
Kanatak, Portage Bay
Kanatak is an uninhabited Alutiiq community of the Native Tribe of Kanatak located at the head of Portage Bay, on the Pacific coast of the Alaska Peninsula, about 136 miles (219 km) west-southwest of Kodiak and 65 miles (105 km) southeast of Egegik, Alaska.
Clo-oose, Cheewhat River
Clo-oose is the site of an abandoned village of the Ditidaht First Nation on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, above a beach 0.25 miles (0.4 km) west of the Cheewhat River mouth, about 20 miles (32 km) west-northwest of Port Renfrew and 19 miles (31 km) southeast of Bamfield, British Columbia.
South Beach, Yaquina Bay South Jetty
South Beach is a state park south of the jetty protecting the mouth of Yaquina Bay and extending for 1 mile (1.6 km) along the Pacific coast, about 12 miles (19 km) north of Waldport and 2 miles (3.2 km) south-southwest of Newport, Oregon.
Metlakatla, Annette Island
Metlakatla is a Tsimshian community situated on Port Chester, an embayment on the west coast of Annette Island, about 75 miles (121 km) northwest of Prince Rupert and 16 miles (26 km) south-southeast of Ketchikan, Alaska.
Geikie Inlet, Glacier Bay
Geikie Inlet is a fjord about 8 miles (13 km) long that trends generally northeast from the mouth of the Geikie River to the western coast of Glacier Bay, in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 130 miles (209 km) southeast of Yakutat and 32 miles (51 km) northwest of Gustavus, Alaska.
Point Piedras Blancas, San Simeon
Point Piedras Blancas is a prominent headland and the site of a historic light station within the California Coastal National Monument, and surrounded by the Hearst San Simeon State Park, about 73 miles (117 km) south-southeast of Monterey and 6 miles (10 km) west-northwest of San Simeon, California.
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