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Fort Stevens, Point Adams

Fort Stevens was constructed during the American Civil War as an earthwork battery on the south shore at the mouth of the Columbia River on Point Adams, about 15 miles (24 km) north of Seaside and 6 miles (10 km) west-northwest of Astoria, Oregon.

Tongue Point, Crescent Bay

Tongue Point is a rocky ledge in the Strait of Juan de Fuca that projects from a peninsula forming the eastern shore of Crescent Bay on the north coast of the Olympic Peninsula and the site of a historical port and shipwreck, about 44 miles (71 km) east-southeast of Neah Bay and 13 miles (21 km) west-northwest of Port Angeles, Washington.

Nelson Lagoon, Bering Sea

Nelson Lagoon is a community situated on the Bering Sea coast of the Alaska Peninsula, on a narrow barrier sand spit forming the embayment of Nelson Lagoon, about 258 miles (415 km) northeast of Dutch Harbor and 24 miles (39 km) west of Port Moller, Alaska.

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Titlow Beach, Tacoma Narrows

Titlow Beach, Tacoma Narrows

Titlow Beach is an urban neighborhood on the eastern shore of the Tacoma Narrows at the site of a historical fish camp used by the Puyallup and Nisqually tribes situated on a tidal wetland now called Titlow Lagoon, about 5.8 miles (9.4 km) south-southeast of Gig Harbor and 5.3 miles (8.5 km) west of downtown Tacoma, Washington.

Deering, Kotzebue Sound

Deering, Kotzebue Sound

Deering is a community situated on a barrier spit at the mouth of the Inmachuk River on Kotzebue Sound on the northern coast of the Seward Peninsula between Cape Deceit to the west and Ninemile Point to the east, about 155 miles (250 km) east-northeast of Point Hope and 57 miles (92 km) south of Kotzebue, Alaska.

Lawson’s Landing, Sand Point

Lawson’s Landing, Sand Point

Lawson’s Landing is a recreational area and campground on 75 acres (30 ha) in the Tomales Dunes Complex on Tomales Bay at Sand Point, about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Santa Rosa and 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Dillion Beach, California.

Kiwalik, Spafarief Bay

Kiwalik, Spafarief Bay

Kiwalik is a historical Iñupiat hunting and fishing camp, that became a major logistical base for mining activities in the Candle area, situated on a spit between Kawalik Lagoon to the south and Spafarief Bay to the north on the northeast coast of the Seward Peninsula, about 148 miles (238 km) northeast of Nome and 64 miles (103 km) south-southeast of Kotzebue, Alaska.

Diamond Point, Discovery Bay

Diamond Point, Discovery Bay

Diamond Point is a community on the northeast tip of the Miller Peninsula which forms part of the Olympic Peninsula on the Strait of Juan de Fuca at the entrance to Discovery Bay, about 44 miles (71 km) northwest of Seattle and 7.5 miles (12 km) west-southwest of Port Townsend, Washington.

Point Possession, Cook Inlet

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.

Nash Harbor, Nunivak Island

Nash Harbor, Nunivak Island

Nash Harbor is a historic settlement situated at the outlet of a lagoon on the south shore of an embayment also named Nash Harbor bounded by Cape Algonquin to the west and Chingeeruk Point to the east, on the north coast of Nunivak Island, about 96 miles (155 km) south-southwest of Hooper Bay and 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Mekoryuk, Alaska.

Saxman, Revillagigedo Island

Saxman, Revillagigedo Island

Saxman is a community on the west coast of Revillagigedo Island on Tongass Narrows across from Pennock Island, about 86 miles (138 km) northwest of Prince Rupert and 3 miles (5 km) southwest of Ketchikan, Alaska.

Cape Espenberg, Seward Peninsula

Cape Espenberg, Seward Peninsula

Espenberg is a historic Iñupiaq settlement and present-day fish camp at Cape Espenberg, a peninsula composed of a series of dune-covered beach ridges on the Chukchi Sea coast of the Seward Peninsula that extends eastward into Kotzebue Sound, about 63 miles (101 km) east-northeast of Shishmaref and 43 miles (69 km) southwest of Kotzebue, Alaska.

Kingigin, Cape Prince of Wales

Kingigin, Cape Prince of Wales

Kingigin is an Iñupiat village, also known as Wales, situated at the mouth of Village Creek, on a series of ancient beach ridges separating Lopp Lagoon to the east from the Bering Strait to the west, on the Seward Peninsula at Cape Prince of Wales, about 73 miles (118 km) southwest of Shishmaref and 27 miles (44 km) southeast of Diomede, Alaska.

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