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Yakutat, Monti Bay

Yakutat is a small community at the head of Monti Bay, on the southeast shore of Yakutat Bay, about 222 miles (358 km) east-southeast of Cordova and 210 miles (339 km) northwest of Juneau, Alaska.

Cannery Cove, North Arm Moira Sound

Cannery Cove is on the southeastern shore and near the head of North Arm Moira Sound, about 28 miles (45 km) east-southeast of Hydaburg and 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Ketchikan, Alaska.

Union Bay Cannery, Ernest Sound

Union Bay is situated on the lower Cleveland Peninsula between Lemesurier Point to the west and Union Point to the east, at the southern entrance to Ernest Sound, and is the site of a historical salmon cannery that was at the mouth of Cannery Creek, about 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of Meyers Chuck, and 34 miles (55 km) northwest of Ketchikan, Alaska.

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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.

Dillingham, Nushagak Bay

Dillingham, Nushagak Bay

Dillingham is a community on the south side of Snag Point at the confluence of the Wood and Nushagak Rivers, at the head of Nushagak Bay on the north coast of Bristol Bay, about 248 miles (400 km) west-southwest of Homer and 166 miles (270 km) southeast of Bethel, Alaska.

Bartlett Cove, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve

Bartlett Cove, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve

Bartlett Cove is an embayment and estuary of the Bartlett River that extends northeast for 2 miles (3.2 km) from the eastern shore of Glacier Bay and is the location of a small resort community and administrative headquarters for Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 155 miles (250 km) southeast of Yakutat and 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Gustavus, Alaska.

Parks Cannery, Uyak Bay

Parks Cannery, Uyak Bay

Parks Cannery is located in Uyak Bay, 24 miles (39 km) south of Shelikof Strait on the west coast of Kodiak Island, about 8 miles (13 km) south-southeast of Larsen Bay and 61 miles (100 km) southwest of Kodiak, Alaska.

Shearwater Bay Cannery, Observation Point

Shearwater Bay Cannery, Observation Point

Kadiak Fisheries operated a remote salmon cannery at Observation Point from 1926 until 1964 when it was destroyed by a tsunami, on the north shore of Shearwater Bay on Kodiak Island, about 36 miles (58 km) south-southwest of Kodiak and 18 miles (29 km) northeast of Old Harbor, Alaska.

Uganik Fisheries Cannery, Northeast Arm

Uganik Fisheries Cannery, Northeast Arm

Uganik Fisheries is a historical salmon cannery on the north shore of Northeast Arm in Uganik Bay about 1.3 miles (2 km) southeast of Starr Point on the northwestern coast of Kodiak Island, about 147 miles (237 km) south-southwest of Homer and 35 miles (56 km) west of Kodiak, Alaska.

Halibut Cove Lagoon, Kachemak Bay

Halibut Cove Lagoon, Kachemak Bay

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

Trident Seafoods, Akutan

Trident Seafoods, Akutan

Trident Seafoods operates a processing facility near Akutan Village 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.

Akutan Village, Akutan Island

Akutan Village, Akutan Island

Akutan is a community situated 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.

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