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Chatham Cannery, Sitkoh Bay

Chatham is a historical salmon cannery and village on the west shore of Sitkoh Bay on Chichagof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 58 miles (93 km) south-southwest of Juneau and 13 miles (21 km) west of Angoon, Alaska.

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.

Calder, Shakan Strait

Calder is a mining camp for a historic marble quarry and present-day limestone mine situated at the mouth of Marble Creek on Shakan Strait near the entrance to El Capitan Passage on Prince of Wales Island, about 92 miles (148 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 12 miles (19 km) south-southeast of Port Protection, Alaska.

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Shepard Point, Orca Inlet

Shepard Point, Orca Inlet

Shepard Point is an alluvial fan on the eastern shore of Orca Inlet in Prince William Sound at Nelson Bay, which is an estuary mostly formed by the Rude River, about 41 miles (66 km) southeast of Valdez and 7 miles (11.3 km) north-northeast of Cordova, Alaska.

George Inlet Cannery, Revillagigedo Island

George Inlet Cannery, Revillagigedo Island

George Inlet is a deglaciated fjord that extends generally north into Revillagigedo Island for about 19 miles (31 km) from Revillagigedo Channel to Salt Lagoon, with a historical cannery situated on the western shore, about 87 miles (140 km) northwest of Prince Rupert and 9 miles (15 km) east-northeast of Ketchikan, Alaska.

Dundas Bay, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve

Dundas Bay, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve

Dundas Bay is on the north shore of Icy Strait in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, and is the site of a historical salmon cannery on the western shore and a former Tlingit village on the eastern shore, about 24 miles (39 km) west of Gustavus and 11 miles (18 km) north of Elfin Cove, Alaska.

San Juan Cove, Tutka Bay

San Juan Cove, Tutka Bay

San Juan Cove is a small embayment on the north shore of Tutka Bay, a deglaciated fjord on the southern shore of Kachemak Bay in the Kenai Mountains in Kachemak Bay State Park, about 13 miles (21 km) south-southeast of Homer and 11 miles (18 km) east-northeast of Seldovia, Alaska.

Chatham Cannery, Sitkoh Bay

Chatham Cannery, Sitkoh Bay

Chatham is a historical salmon cannery and village on the west shore of Sitkoh Bay on Chichagof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 58 miles (93 km) south-southwest of Juneau and 13 miles (21 km) west of Angoon, Alaska.

Cordova, Orca Inlet

Cordova, Orca Inlet

Cordova is a community on the southeastern shore of Orca Inlet across from Hawkins Island in eastern Prince William Sound, about 100 miles (160 km) east-southeast of Whittier and 45 miles (72 km) south-southeast of Valdez, Alaska.

Rose Inlet Cannery, Dall Island

Rose Inlet Cannery, Dall Island

Rose Inlet is a sheltered embayment, and the site of a historical salmon cannery, that extends southwest for 2.5 miles (4 km) from Kaigani Strait on the east coast of Dall Island, about 116 miles (187 km) northwest of Prince Rupert and 60 miles (97 km) southwest of Ketchikan, Alaska.

Port O’Brien, Uganik Bay

Port O’Brien, Uganik Bay

Port O’Brien is a remote salmon cannery located on the eastern shore of Northeast Arm Uganik Bay on the northwest coast of Kodiak Island, about 147 miles (236 km) south-southwest of Homer and 34 miles (55 km) west of Kodiak, Alaska.

Port Bailey, Dry Spruce Bay

Port Bailey, Dry Spruce Bay

Port Bailey is a historical cannery in Dry Spruce Bay on the Kupreanof Peninsula of Kodiak Island, about 130 miles (209 km) south-southwest of Homer and 26 miles (42 km) west-northwest of Kodiak, Alaska.

Port Althorp, Chichagof Island

Port Althorp, Chichagof Island

Port Althorp is the site of a historical salmon cannery and a military facility situated on the north coast of Chichagof Island, in a deep embayment that extends southeast for 5 miles (8 km) from the George Islands between the Inian Peninsula to the east and the Althorp Peninsula to the west, about 155 miles (250 km) southeast of Yakutat and 29 miles (47 km) southwest of Gustavus, Alaska.

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