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Tomales Point, Point Reyes National Seashore

Tomales Bluff is a headland forming the northern tip of Tomales Point in Point Reyes National Seashore National Seashore, about 45 miles (72 km) northwest of San Francisco and 7 miles (11 km) south-southeast of Bodega Bay, California.

Little Island, Lynn Canal

Little Island is in Lynn Canal at the north end of Favorite Channel, 0.4 miles (0.6 km) north of Ralston Island, and about 67 miles (108 km) south of Skagway and 28 miles (45 km) northwest of Juneau, Alaska.

Hollis, Prince of Wales Island

Hollis is a small community on Twelvemile Arm of Kasaan Bay, north of Cat Island, near the center of Prince of Wales Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 41 miles (66 km) west-northwest of Ketchikan and 20 miles (32 km) east of Craig, Alaska.

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Dakavak Bay, Katmai National Park and Preserve

Dakavak Bay, Katmai National Park and Preserve

Dakavak Bay is a 3.4-mile (5.5 km) wide inlet on the southeastern coast of the Alaska Peninsula in Katmai National Park and Preserve, that extends north from Shelikof Strait for about 3 miles (5 km), roughly 87 miles (140 km) west-northwest of Kodiak and 83 miles (134 km) southeast of King Salmon, Alaska.

Aialik Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park

Aialik Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park

Aialik Glacier flows southeast for 8 miles (13 km) from the Harding Icefield in the Kenai Mountains to tidewater at Aialik Bay in Kenai Fjords National Park, about 66 miles (106 km) east-northeast of Homer and 16 miles (26 km) southwest of Seward, Alaska.

Table Bluff, Humboldt Bay

Table Bluff, Humboldt Bay

Table Bluff is a promontory and coastal plateau less than 1 mile (1.6 km) wide, with an elevation of 163 feet (50 m), at the base of South Spit, which encloses the southern portion of Humboldt Bay, about 9 miles (15 km) southwest of Eureka and 4.5 miles (7 km) northwest of Loleta, California.

Burnett Inlet, Etolin Island

Burnett Inlet, Etolin Island

Burnett Inlet is a narrow, estuarine fjord that extends about 9 miles (15 km) north from Clarence Strait into the southwest coast of Etolin Island, roughly 63 miles (101 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 25 miles (40 km) south-southwest of Wrangell, Alaska.

Kitsault River, Alice Arm

Kitsault River, Alice Arm

Kitsault River drains a watershed area of about 113,668 acres (46,000 ha), including the Kitsault Glacier that flows out of the Cambria Icefield and several smaller glaciers, and flows generally south for 23 miles (37 km) through the Coast Mountains to the head of Alice Arm, about 37 miles (60 km) south-southeast of Stewart and 1.7 miles (2.7 km) north-northwest of Kitsault, British Columbia.

Akutan Village, Akutan Island

Akutan Village, Akutan Island

Akutan is a community on the northern shore of Akutan Harbor, on Akutan Island, one of the Krenitzin Islands in the Fox Islands group of the Eastern Aleutians, about 766 miles (1,233 km) southwest of Anchorage and 35 miles (56 km) east of Unalaska, Alaska.

Valencia Bluffs, West Coast Trail

Valencia Bluffs, West Coast Trail

Valencia Bluffs are sea cliffs along the West Coast Trail in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve on Vancouver Island’s southwest shore, about 29 miles (47 km) northwest of Port Renfrew and 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Bamfield, British Columbia.

Grapeview, Case Inlet

Grapeview, Case Inlet

Grapeview is a community that includes Allyn, Stretch Island, and Reach Island located on the western shore at the head of Case Inlet in South Puget Sound, about 19 miles (31 km) west-northwest of Tacoma and 16 miles (26 km) northeast of Shelton, Washington.

Cape Newenham, Togiak Bay

Cape Newenham, Togiak Bay

Cape Newenham is a massive headland on the eastern shore of the Bering Sea, situated between Kuskokwim Bay to the north and Togiak Bay to the south, about 149 miles (240 km) south of Bethel and 69 miles (111 km) southwest of Togiak, Alaska.

Point Lobos, Carmel Bay

Point Lobos, Carmel Bay

Point Lobos is a rocky headland at the south end of Carmel Bay between Cypress Cove to the north and Headland Cove to the south on the central coast of California, about 19 miles (31 km) north-northwest of Big Sur and 2.5 miles (4 km) southwest of Carmel, California.

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