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Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island

Mekoryuk is a community situated at the western entrance to Shoal Bay on the northern shore of Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea, about 153 miles (246 km) west-southwest of Bethel and 80 miles (129 km) south of Hooper Bay, Alaska.

Millers Landing, Kachemak Bay

Millers Landing is on the north shore of Kachemak Bay, on the Kenai Peninsula, about 4 miles (6.5 km) northwest of Homer, Alaska.

Saxman, Revillagigedo Island

Saxman is a community on the west coast of Revillagigedo Island on Tongass Narrows across from Pennock Island, about 86 miles (138 km) northwest of Prince Rupert and 3 miles (5 km) southwest of Ketchikan, Alaska.

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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.

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.

Vancouver, Fraser River Delta

Vancouver, Fraser River Delta

Vancouver is a coastal seaport located on the Burrard Peninsula in the Fraser River Delta, between Burrard Inlet to the north and the Fraser River to the south, about 60 miles (97 km) north-northeast of Victoria and 38 miles (61 km) east-northeast of Nanaimo, British Columbia.

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