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Chip Cove Cannery, Moser Bay

Chip Cove is an embayment between Luchek Mountain to the south and Peak 2001 to the north, and the site of a historical salmon cannery on the western shore of Moser Bay near Olga Narrows on the southwestern coast of Kodiak Island, about 83 miles (131 km) southwest of Kodiak and 6 miles (10 km) north of Akhiok, Alaska.

Butedale, Princess Royal Island

Butedale is a historical salmon cannery and community located on a small embayment adjacent to Butedale Falls along the Inside Passage on the northeast side of Princess Royal Island across from Work Island on the southern shore of Fraser Reach, which is part of Princess Royal Channel, about 103 miles (166 km) southeast of Prince Rupert and 59 miles (95 km) south of Kitimat, British Columbia.

Funter Bay, Admiralty Island

Funter Bay is on the west coast of the Mansfield Peninsula on Admiralty Island, about 32 miles (52 km) southeast of Gustavus and 14 miles (23 km) southwest of Juneau, Alaska.

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Trident Seafoods, Akutan Island

Trident Seafoods, Akutan Island

Trident Seafoods operates the largest seafood processing facility in North America on Akutan Island, one of the Krenitzen Islands in the Fox Island group of the Eastern Aleutians, about 750 miles (1210 km) southwest of Anchorage and 36 miles (58 km) northeast of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. 

Halibut Cove Lagoon, Kachemak Bay

Halibut Cove Lagoon, Kachemak Bay

Halibut Cove Lagoon is a semi‐enclosed embayment 0.7 miles (1 km) wide at the head of Halibut Cove on Kachemak Bay’s southeast shore, on the Kenai Peninsula, about 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Seldovia and 13 miles (21 km) southeast of Homer, Alaska.

Akutan Village, Akutan Island

Akutan Village, Akutan Island

Akutan is a community on the northern shore of Akutan Harbor, on Akutan Island, one of the Krenitzin Islands in the Fox Islands group of the Eastern Aleutians, about 766 miles (1,233 km) southwest of Anchorage and 35 miles (56 km) east of Unalaska, Alaska.

Cannery Cove, Pybus Bay

Cannery Cove, Pybus Bay

Cannery Cove is an embayment on the western shore of Pybus Bay in the Kootznoowoo Wilderness, on the southern coast of Admiralty Island, about 70 miles (113 km) south of Juneau and 24 miles (39 km) north-northwest of Kake, Alaska.

Dryad Point, Campbell Island

Dryad Point, Campbell Island

Dryad Point is on the northeastern point of Campbell Island and is the site of a historic lighthouse that marks the intersection of Lama Passage to the east and Seaforth Channel to the north on the Inside Passage, about 173 miles (278 km) southeast of Prince Rupert and 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of Bella Bella, British Columbia.

Little Port Walter, Baranof Island

Little Port Walter, Baranof Island

Little Port Walter is an embayment and research facility on the southern shore of Port Walter, situated on the southeastern coast of Baranof Island and the western shore of Chatham Strait, about 53 miles (85 km) south-southeast of Sitka and 9 miles (14.5 km) north of Port Alexander, Alaska.

Icy Strait Point, Port Frederick

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.

Winema Beach, Oretown

Winema Beach, Oretown

Winema Beach, a coastal strip adjacent to Winema Lake, was once the site of a town 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.

Metlakatla, Annette Island

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.

Loring, Naha Bay

Loring, Naha Bay

Loring is a small community at the site of a historical salmon cannery on the west coast of Revillagigedo Island, at the head of Naha Bay and near the mouth of the Naha River, about 66 miles (106 km) south-southeast of Wrangell and 17 miles (27 km) north of Ketchikan, Alaska.

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