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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.

Quarantine Cove, William Head

Quarantine Cove is a bight on the northern shore of William Head, a peninsula near the southern tip of Vancouver Island on the north coast of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, located between Pedder Bay to the south and Parry Bay to the north, approximately 9.7 miles (15.6 km) east-southeast of Sooke and 9.6 miles (15.5 km) southwest of Victoria, British Columbia.

Cape Alava, Olympic National Park

Cape Alava is a point of land on the outer coast of the Olympic Peninsula in Olympic National Park, and bordering the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, about 22 miles (35 km) northwest of Forks and 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Neah Bay, Washington.

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Grand Pacific Glacier, Tarr Inlet

Grand Pacific Glacier, Tarr Inlet

Grand Pacific Glacier flows from elevations between 4,925-9,845 feet (1500–3000 m) on the British Columbia-Alaska boundary to Tarr Inlet in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 100 miles (161 km) southeast of Yakutat and 66 miles (106 km) north-northwest of Gustavus, Alaska.

Anacla, Pachena Bay

Anacla, Pachena Bay

Anacla is a community of the Huu-ay-aht First Nation on the Pachena River near the head of Pachena Bay, about 37 miles (60 km) northwest of Port Renfrew and 2.4 miles (4 km) south-southwest of Bamfield, British Columbia.

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.

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