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Strawberry Hill, Point Bentinck

Strawberry Hill is a series of uplifted beach ridges on Point Bentinck, at the eastern tip of Hinchinbrook Island and the southern entrance to Strawberry Channel, which separates the island from the mainland, about 53 miles (85 km) south of Valdez and 17 miles (27 km) southwest of Cordova, Alaska.

Fossil Point, Tuxedni Bay

Fossil Point is a prominent landmark in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve on the southern shore of Tuxedni Bay, at the north end of Tuxedni Channel and west of Chisik Island, about 56 miles (90 km) southwest of Kenai and 54 miles (87 km) northwest of Homer, Alaska.

Peter Iredale, Clatsop Spit

Peter Iredale was a British four-masted bark-rigged sailing ship with a length of 275 feet (84 m) that ran aground in 1906 and wrecked on Clatsop Spit, about 7 miles (11 km) west of Astoria and 2 miles ( km) southwest of Hammond, Oregon.

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Columbia Glacier, Prince William Sound

Columbia Glacier, Prince William Sound

Columbia Glacier starts from ice fields at elevations over 9,000 feet (2743 m) near Mount Witherspoon in the Chugach Mountains and flows east and then generally south for 23 miles (37 km) to Columbia Bay on the north coast of Prince William Sound, about 62 miles (100 km) northeast of Whittier and 23 miles (37 km) west of Valdez, Alaska.

Hopkins Marine Station, Point Cabrillo

Hopkins Marine Station, Point Cabrillo

Hopkins Marine Station is a laboratory of Stanford University located on Point Cabrillo in Monterey Bay and adjacent to the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Pacific Grove, about 14 miles (23 km) south-southwest of Moss Landing and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north-northwest of Monterey, California.

Anangula Island, Bering Sea

Anangula Island, Bering Sea

Anangula Island, also known as Ananiuliak Island, is situated in the Bering Sea and is one of the Fox Islands in the eastern Aleutian Islands, separated from Umnak Island by a channel about 0.93 miles (1.50 km) wide, about 116 miles (187 km) southwest of Dutch Harbor and 4.6 miles (7.4 km) north-northwest of Nikolski, Alaska.

Humbug Mountain, Port Orford

Humbug Mountain, Port Orford

Humbug Mountain rises 1,758 feet (536 m) from sea level on the southern coast of Oregon and lies entirely within Humbug Mountain State Park, about 21 miles (34 km) north of Gold Beach and 6 miles (10 km) south of Port Orford, Oregon.

Portland Canal, International Boundary

Portland Canal, International Boundary

Portland Canal is a deglaciated fjord that extends south-southwest for 65 miles (105 km) from the community of Stewart in the north to the head of Portland Inlet in the south, forming part of the international boundary between Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, Canada.

Port Alexander, Baranof Island

Port Alexander, Baranof Island

Port Alexander is an embayment and small community on the southern tip of Baranof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 133 miles (214 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 62 miles (100 km) south-southeast of Sitka, Alaska.

Elkhorn Slough, Moss Landing

Elkhorn Slough, Moss Landing

Elkhorn Slough is an estuary about 7 miles (11 km) long that connects with Monterey Bay at the community of Moss Landing, about 17 miles (27 km) southeast of Santa Cruz and 16 miles (26 km) north-northeast of Monterey, California.

Kashega, Unalaska Island

Kashega, Unalaska Island

Kashega is an abandoned Unangan Aleut village on the Bering Sea coast of Unalaska Island, situated on a spit between Brennan Lake and Kashega Bay, about 79 miles (127 km) northeast of Nikolski and 39 miles (63 km) southwest of Dutch Harbor, Alaska.

Ninilchik, Kenai Peninsula

Ninilchik, Kenai Peninsula

Ninilchik is a community at Cape Ninilchik at the mouth of the Ninilchik River on the Kenai Peninsula, on the eastern shore of Cook Inlet, about 99 miles (160 km) southwest of Anchorage and 30 miles (48 km) north-northwest of Homer, Alaska.

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