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SS South Portland, Cape Blanco

SS South Portland is a historical shipwreck on Cape Blanco, a prominent headland that extends 1.5 miles (2.4 km) into the Pacific Ocean with cliffs 200 feet (61 m) high, about 205 miles (331 km) southwest of Portland and 7 miles (11 km) north-northwest of Port Orford, Oregon.

Kaflia Bay, Katmai National Park and Preserve

Kaflia Bay is a funnel-shaped embayment that extends west for 4 miles (6.5 km) from the coast of Shelikof Strait between Cape Ugyak to the north and Cape Gull to the south in Katmai National Park and Preserve, about 93 miles (150 km) southeast of King Salmon and 75 miles (121 km) northwest of Kodiak, Alaska.

Kapaloak Creek, Cape Dyer

Kapaloak Creek starts from an elevation of roughly 1200 feet (366 m) in the Lisburne Hills and flows generally west for 8.5 miles (14 km) to Cape Dyer on the Chukchi Sea and the site of a historical Iñupiat village, about 110 miles (177 km) southwest of Point Lay and 25 miles (40 km) north-northeast of Point Hope, Alaska.

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Thorne Bay, Prince of Wales Island

Thorne Bay, Prince of Wales Island

Thorne Bay is a small community, and an estuary of the Thorne River on the eastern coast of Prince of Wales Island, the largest of approximately 1,100 islands interspersed by marine channels in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 55 miles (89 km) southwest of Wrangell and 42 miles (68 km) northwest of Ketchikan, Alaska.

Cannery Row, Monterey

Cannery Row, Monterey

Cannery Row is the Monterey waterfront between San Carlos Beach and Cabrillo Beach, or between the Monterey Harbor Marina and the Monterey Bay Aquarium, where several historical Pacific sardine canneries once operated, about 25 miles (40 km) south-southeast of Santa Cruz and 1 mile (1.6 km) southeast of Pacific Grove, California.

Beartrack Cove, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve

Beartrack Cove, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve

Beartrack Cove is an estuary about 3 miles (4.8 km) long and 1.6 miles (2.6 km) wide situated at the mouth of the Beartrack River in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 46 miles (74 km) south-southwest of Haines and 14 miles (23 km) north-northwest of Gustavus, Alaska.

Fords Terror, Endicott Arm

Fords Terror, Endicott Arm

Fords Terror is a fjord in the Coast Mountains of Southeast Alaska that trends generally south for 8 miles (13 km) to Endicott Arm, about 64 miles (103 km) southeast of Juneau and 57 miles (92 km) north-northwest of Petersburg, Alaska.

Sooke Harbour, Strait of Juan de Fuca

Sooke Harbour, Strait of Juan de Fuca

Sooke is a community on the western shore of Sooke Harbour, a narrow natural embayment separated from the Strait of Juan de Fuca by Whiffin Spit, about 35 miles (56 km) southwest of Port Renfrew and 17 miles (27 km) west-southwest of Victoria, British Columbia.

Ultramarine Glacier, Blue Fjord

Ultramarine Glacier, Blue Fjord

Ultramarine Glacier is located at the head of Blue Fjord, a glacial estuary that trends generally north for 4.5 miles (7.3 km) to Port Nellie Juan in western Prince William Sound on the east coast of the Kenai Peninsula, about 87 miles (140 km) west of Cordova and 26 miles (42 km) southeast of Whittier, Alaska.

Ketchikan, Revillagigedo Island

Ketchikan, Revillagigedo Island

Ketchikan is a coastal community and U.S. port of entry on the north shore of Tongass Narrows, on the southern coast of Revillagigedo Island, about 88 miles (142 km) northwest of Prince Rupert and 84 miles (135 km) south-southeast of Wrangell, Alaska.

La Honda Canyon, Point Pedernales

La Honda Canyon, Point Pedernales

La Honda Canyon is a valley formed by Cañada Honda Creek that enters the Pacific Ocean 0.4 miles (0.6 km) near Woodbury Rocks north of Point Pedernales, about 56 miles (90 km) west-northwest of Santa Barbara and 11 miles (18 km) west-southwest of Lompoc, California.

King Island, Bering Sea

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.

Shelton, Hammersley Inlet

Shelton, Hammersley Inlet

Shelton is a community located on the southwest shore of Oakland Bay, an estuary connected to South Puget Sound by Hammersley Inlet, about 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Seattle and 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Olympia, Washington.

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