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King Island, Bering Sea

King Island is about 1.7 miles (2.7 km) long and 1.4 miles (2.3 km) wide with steep rocky cliffs on all sides and a summit elevation of about 1,050 feet (320 m), located in the northern Bering Sea, about 86 miles (139 km) northwest of Nome, and 44 miles (71 km) south of Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska.

Klamath River, Requa

The Klamath River flows for 257 miles (415 km) from a broad patchwork of lakes and marshes at the edge of the Oregon high desert, through the Cascades and the Klamath Mountains, and enters the Pacific Ocean at the community of Requa, about 52 miles (84 km) north of Eureka and 16 miles (26 km) south-southeast of Crescent City, California.

Point Roberts, Strait of Georgia

Point Roberts is a community situated on 3,136 acres (1,269 ha) of the southern tip of the Tsawwassen Peninsula and represents an exclave of the United States in the Strait of Georgia, about 32 miles (52 km) northwest of Bellingham and 15 miles (24 km) west of Blaine, Washington.

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Lime Kiln Point, San Juan Island

Lime Kiln Point, San Juan Island

Lime Kiln Point is a state park of 42 acres (17 ha) and the site of a historic limestone quarry and kiln on the western shore of San Juan Island, about 6 miles (10 km) south of Roche Harbor and 6 miles (10 km) west of Friday Harbor, Washington.

Nubble Point, Kasitsna Bay

Nubble Point, Kasitsna Bay

Nubble Point is a bedrock outcrop connected to the Kenai Peninsula mainland by MacDonald Spit which forms and separates Kasitsna Bay from Kachemak Bay, about 11 miles (18 km) south of Homer and 6.5 miles (10.5 km) northeast of Seldovia, Alaska.

Perryville, Alaska Peninsula

Perryville, Alaska Peninsula

Perryville is an Alutiiq Sugpiaq community established on the south coast of the Alaska Peninsula between Three Star Point to the west and Coal Cape to the east, about 66 miles (106 km) northeast of Sand Point and 41 miles (66 km) southwest of Chignik, Alaska.

Pigeon Point Lighthouse, Pigeon Point

Pigeon Point Lighthouse, Pigeon Point

Pigeon Point is a prominent headland and the site of a historic lighthouse, situated between Bolsa Point to the north and Franklin Point to the south, about 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Santa Cruz and 5 miles (8 km) south of Pescadero, California.

Cassiar Cannery, Skeena River

Cassiar Cannery, Skeena River

Cassiar is a historic salmon cannery situated on the northern shoreline of Inverness Passage at the mouth of the Skeena River, about 67 miles (18 km) southwest of Terrace and 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Prince Rupert, British Columbia.

Saint Nicholas Chapel, Ekuk

Saint Nicholas Chapel, Ekuk

Saint Nicholas Chapel is a historic Russian Orthodox church situated on a bluff overlooking Ekuk Spit and the summer set-net community of Ekuk, on the eastern shore of Nushagak Bay, about 16 miles (26 km) south-southwest of Dillingham and 2 miles (3.2 km) south-southwest of Clarks Point, Alaska.

Chariot, Cape Thompson

Chariot, Cape Thompson

Cape Thompson is a headland on the Chukchi Sea coast near the site of Project Chariot, about 41 miles (66 km) northwest of Kivalina and about 31 miles (50 km) southeast of Point Hope, Alaska.

Point Franklin, Peard Bay

Point Franklin, Peard Bay

Point Franklin is the site of several whaling shipwrecks at the end of a barrier spit that extends 13 miles (21 km) northeast from the Arctic Coastal Plain, and together with the Seahorse Islands, separates Peard Bay from the Chukchi Sea, about 54 miles (87 km) southwest of Utqiaġvik and 33 miles (53 km) northeast of Wainwright, Alaska.

Brookings, Chetco River

Brookings, Chetco River

Brookings is a community at the mouth of the Chetco River, which flows from the Southern Oregon Coast Range to the Pacific Ocean, about 21 miles (34 km) north-northwest of Crescent City, California and 26 miles (42 km) south-southeast of Gold Beach, Oregon.

Glass Beach, Noyo Headlands Park

Glass Beach, Noyo Headlands Park

Glass Beach is situated in the northern section of Noyo Headlands Park in the community of Fort Bragg, which is between Pudding Creek to the north and Noyo River to the south, about 95 miles (153 km) south-southeast of Eureka and 10 miles (16 km) north of Mendocino, California.

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