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Peter Iredale, Clatsop Spit
Peter Iredale was a British four-masted bark-rigged sailing ship with a length of 275 feet (84 m) that ran aground in 1906 and wrecked on Clatsop Spit, about 7 miles (11 km) west of Astoria and 2 miles ( km) southwest of Hammond, Oregon.
Grewingk Creek, Kachemak Bay
Grewingk Creek drains a glaciated watershed of 29,138 acres (11,792 ha) and flows generally northwest for 3.5 miles (5.6 km) from the terminus lake of the retreating Grewingk Glacier to the southeastern shore of Kachemak Bay, about 24 miles (39 km) northeast of Seldovia and 13 miles (21 km) east of Homer, Alaska.
Tennessee Cove, Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Tennessee Cove is an embayment with a sandy beach about 600 feet (180 m) long on the Pacific Ocean between Pirates Cove to the north and Rodeo Cove to the south in Golden Gate National Recreation Area about 10 miles (16 km) northwest of San Francisco and 3.6 miles (5.8 km) southwest of Mill Valley, California.
Winchuk River, Crissey Field
Winchuck River starts at an elevation of about 2,000 feet (610 m) and flows generally southwest for 19 miles (31 km) through the Rogue River–Siskiyou National Forest to the Pacific Ocean at Crissey Field, about 17 miles (27 km) north of Crescent City and 4.8 miles (7.7 km) southeast of Brookings, Oregon.
Polly Creek, Cook Inlet
Polly Creek and Little Polly Creek drain a combined watershed of 16,113 acres (6,521 ha), on the southern flank of an unnamed ridge that extends southeast from the summit of Mount Redoubt, and flow generally south for 9 miles (14.5 km) and 8 miles (12.8 km) respectively to the western shore of Cook Inlet, about 56 miles (90 km) northwest of Homer and 46 miles (74 km) southwest of Kenai, Alaska.
King Philip, Ocean Beach
King Philip was a clipper ship that wrecked in 1878 on Ocean Beach, on the west coast of the San Francisco Peninsula in the Sunset District, about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Golden Gate Park and 7 miles (11 km) west-southwest of downtown San Francisco, California.
La Jenelle, Silver Strand
La Jenelle was a passenger ship that went aground and wrecked in 1970 on Silver Strand at Port Hueneme, a sandy beach created partly from dredged harbor sand about 1 mile (1.6 km) long and 450 feet(140 m) wide, about 33 miles (53 km) southeast of Santa Barbara and 3.3 miles (5.3 km) south of Oxnard, California.
Clatsop Spit, Columbia River Bar
Clatsop Spit is part of Fort Stevens State Park that projects north from the south bank of the Columbia River and the submerged portion forms the Columbia River Bar, about 80 miles (129 km) northwest of Portland and 9 miles (15 km) west-northwest of Astoria, Oregon.
SS Palo Alto, Seacliff Beach
SS Palo Alto is a shipwreck that now serves as an artificial reef for marine life at Seacliff State Beach on the northern coast of Monterey Bay, about 6.4 miles (10.3 km) east of Santa Cruz and 0.9 miles (1.5 km) southwest of Aptos, California.
New Carissa, North Spit
New Carissa was a freighter 639 feet (195 m) in length that grounded on North Spit in 1999, causing an oil spill about 5 miles (8 km) northwest of Coos Bay and 4 miles (6.5 km) west of the community of North Bend, Oregon.
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