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Restoration Point, Bainbridge Island
Restoration Point is a conspicuous ledge on the southern end of Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound, about 7 miles (11 km) east-northeast of Bremerton and 7 miles (11 km) west-southwest of Seattle, Washington.
Dawes Glacier, Endicott Arm
Dawes Glacier starts near the Alaska-Canada boundary and flows northwest for 20 miles (32 km) to tidewater in Endicott Arm, about 100 miles (161 km) northeast of Sitka and 80 miles (129 km) southeast of Juneau, Alaska.
Umpqua Beach, Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area
Umpqua Beach is an off-highway vehicle staging area south of the Umpqua River mouth in the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area that extends for about 35 miles (56 km) along the coast from the Siuslaw River at Florence in the north to the Coos River at North Bend, Oregon.
Savoonga, Saint Lawrence Island
Savoonga is a Siberian Yupik community situated on the north flank of the Kookooligit Mountains at Savoonga Point on the north coast of Saint Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, about 164 miles (265 km) southwest of Nome and 39 miles (63 km) east of Gambell, Alaska.
Martins Beach, Half Moon Bay
Martins Beach is a public beach adjacent to a private gated community protected from erosion by a seawall, about 6 miles (10 km) south of the community of Half Moon Bay and 0.7 miles (1.1 km) southwest of Lobitos, California.
Diomede Village, Little Diomede Island
Diomede is an Iñupiaq village situated on the west coast of Little Diomede Island, less than 1 mile (1.6 km) from the International Date Line and 2.4 miles (3.9 km) east from the Russian island of Big Diomede, about 194 miles (312 km) southwest of Kotzebue and 27 miles (44 km) northwest of Wales, Alaska.
Island Copper Mine, Rupert Inlet
Island Copper was an open pit mine located at the northern end of Vancouver Island on Rupert Inlet at the head of Quatsino Sound, about 4.6 miles (7.4 km) east of Coal Harbour and 8.5 miles (14 km) south of Port Hardy, British Columbia.
Border Field State Park, Playas de Tijuana
Border Field State Park is within the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve situated adjacent to the urban neighborhood of Playas de Tijuana, Mexico, about 12 miles (19 km) south of San Diego and within the city limits of Imperial Beach, California.
Portlock Cannery, Port Chatham
Portlock is a historical salmon cannery in Port Chatham, an embayment on the southern coast of the Kenai Peninsula, about 102 miles (164 km) north-northeast of Kodiak and 10 miles (16 km) south-southeast of Port Graham, Alaska.
Whaler Island, Crescent City
Whaler Island is about 700 feet (215 m) across and situated about 0.4 miles (.65 km) offshore and is now connected to the mainland by a paved road on an artificial breakwater that together with Lighthouse Jetty forms a small protected harbor, about 16 miles (26 km) north-northwest of Klamath and 1.4 miles (2.3 km) southeast of Crescent City, California.