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Turkey Head, Oak Bay

Turkey Head is a small peninsula that forms a natural harbour on the southern shore of Oak Bay, 3 miles (4.8 km) east of downtown Victoria, British Columbia.

Kasilof River, Kenai Peninsula

Kasilof River starts at the outlet of Tustumena Lake on the Kenai Peninsula and flows generally northwest for 17 miles (27 km) through the Kenai Lowland to Cook Inlet, draining a watershed of 93,275 acres (37,747 ha), about 51 miles (82 km) north-northeast of Homer and 13 miles (21 km) south-southwest of Kenai, Alaska.

Inverness, Tomales Bay

Inverness is a community on the southwest shore of Tomales Bay, about 19 miles (14.5 km) southeast of Bodega Bay and 3.5 miles (5.6 km) northwest of Point Reyes Station, California.

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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.

Gilttoyees Creek, Foch-Gilttoyees Provincial Park

Gilttoyees Creek, Foch-Gilttoyees Provincial Park

Gilttoyees Creek originates in a series of cirque basins on the east and south flanks of Tentacle Peak in the Kitimat Ranges, and flows generally southeast for about 20 miles (32 km) through Foch-Gilttoyees Provincial Park and Protected Area before reaching Gilttoyees Inlet, which opens onto Douglas Channel, about 60 miles (97 km) southeast of Prince Rupert and 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Kitimat, British Columbia.

Port Moller, Moller Bay

Port Moller, Moller Bay

Port Moller is a small community clustered around a historic salmon cannery on Moller Bay, an embayment on the Bering Sea coast of the Alaska Peninsula near the western margin of Bristol Bay, about 93 miles (150 km) northeast of King Cove and 87 miles (140 km) west-southwest of Chignik, Alaska.

Point Baker, Sumner Strait

Point Baker, Sumner Strait

Point Baker is a cape on the south shore of Sumner Strait at the north end of Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska, where a small community with the same name lines the shore of a narrow water passage, about 101 miles (163 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 49 miles (79 km) west of Wrangell, Alaska.

Tatoosh Island, Cape Flattery

Tatoosh Island, Cape Flattery

Tatoosh Island is the largest of a small group of islands offshore from Cape Flattery and the site of a historic light station, situated on the Makah Reservation, about 34 miles (55 km) north of La Push and 6 miles (10 km) west-northwest of Neah Bay, Washington.

Kanatak, Portage Bay

Kanatak, Portage Bay

Kanatak is an uninhabited Alutiiq community of the Native Tribe of Kanatak located at the head of Portage Bay, on the Pacific coast of the Alaska Peninsula, about 136 miles (219 km) west-southwest of Kodiak and 65 miles (105 km) southeast of Egegik, Alaska.

Clo-oose, Cheewhat River

Clo-oose, Cheewhat River

Clo-oose is the site of an abandoned village of the Ditidaht First Nation on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, above a beach 0.25 miles (0.4 km) west of the Cheewhat River mouth, about 20 miles (32 km) west-northwest of Port Renfrew and 19 miles (31 km) southeast of Bamfield, British Columbia.

Noatak River, Kotzebue Sound

Noatak River, Kotzebue Sound

Noatak River starts from several small cirque glaciers on the northeast flank of Mount lgikpak in the Schwatka Mountains and flows generally west for 425 miles (684 km) to Hotham Inlet in Kotzebue Sound, about 75 miles (121 km) southeast of Kivalina and 6 miles (10 km) north-northeast of Kotzebue, Alaska.

Hyder, Portland Canal

Hyder, Portland Canal

Hyder is a small community at the mouth of the Salmon River, on the western shore and near the head of Portland Canal, about 75 miles (121 km) northeast of Ketchikan and 2.5 miles (4 km) south-southwest of Stewart, British Columbia.

Point Arguello, Vandenberg Space Launch Complex

Point Arguello, Vandenberg Space Launch Complex

Point Arguello is a prominent headland and the site of Vandenberg Space Launch Complex, as well as a historical cattle ranch, lighthouse station, and a Loran station, about 55 miles (89 km) west-northwest of Santa Barbara and 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Lompoc, California.

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