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Tigalda Sea Stack, Krenitzin Islands

Sea stacks are a common feature on the Gulf of Alaska coast, particularly along the Alaska Peninsula and the Eastern Aleutian Islands, about 200 miles (323 km) southwest of Sand Point and 64 miles (103 km) east-northeast of Dutch Harbor, Alaska.

Chugachik Island, Kachemak Bay

Chugachik Island is situated about 800 feet (244 m) off the eastern shore and near the head of Kachemak Bay, between Bear Cove to the south and Martin River to the north, on the Kenai Peninsula in Kachemak Bay State Park, about 18 miles (29 km) northeast of Homer and 3.3 miles (5.3 km) south-southeast of Kachemak Selo, Alaska.

North Entrance, Big Salt Lake

North Entrance is a channel connecting Big Salt Lake to Shinaku Inlet at the head of San Alberto Bay on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska, about 66 miles (106 km) south-southwest of Wrangell and 5 miles (8 km) north of Klawock, Alaska.

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Mueller Cove, Umnak Island

Mueller Cove, Umnak Island

Mueller Cove provides a protected landing for the village of Nikolski at the head of Nikolski Bay, on the northern shore and at the southwestern end of Umnak Island in the eastern Aleutian Islands, about 338 miles (544 km) east-northeast of Adak and 116 miles (187 km) southwest of Dutch Harbor, Alaska.

Helm Point, Coronation Island

Helm Point, Coronation Island

Helm Point is a prominent headland at the southern tip of Coronation Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, between Chatham and Sumner Straits, about 94 miles (151 km) south-southeast of Sitka and 86 miles (138 km) southwest of Wrangell, Alaska.

Cape Kiwanda, Pacific City

Cape Kiwanda, Pacific City

Cape Kiwanda is a sandstone headland with an elevation of 240 feet (73 m), protected by a basalt island known as Haystack Rock lying 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the southwest, about 18 miles (29 km) south-southwest of Tillamook and 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of Pacific City, Oregon.

Prince Rupert, Kaien Island

Prince Rupert, Kaien Island

Prince Rupert is a port community on Kaien Island, just north of the mouth of the Skeena River, and linked by a short bridge to the British Columbia mainland, about 465 miles (748 km) northwest of Vancouver and 90 miles (145 km) southeast of Ketchikan, Alaska.

Tyonek, Cook Inlet

Tyonek, Cook Inlet

Tyonek is a historical Dena’ina Athabascan community situated on a bluff on the northwest shore of Cook Inlet, about 43 miles (69 km) west-southwest of Anchorage and 35 miles (56 km) north of Kenai, Alaska.

Cape Sarichef, Unimak Island

Cape Sarichef, Unimak Island

Cape Sarichef is at the southwestern end of Unimak Island, at the northwestern entrance to Unimak Pass on the Bering Sea coast, and on the northwest flank of Pogromni Volcano, about 80 miles (129 km) northeast of Dutch Harbor and 63 miles (101 km) west-southwest of False Pass, Alaska.

Whaler Bay, Galiano Island

Whaler Bay, Galiano Island

Whaler Bay is located on the southeast end of Galiano Island adjacent to Sturdies Bay and across the island from Montague Harbour, about 28 miles (45 km) south-southwest of Vancouver and 18 miles (29 km) north of Sidney, British Columbia.

Stockdale Harbor, Montague Island

Stockdale Harbor, Montague Island

Stockdale Harbor is on the northwest coast of Montague Island in Prince William Sound, about 62 miles (100 km) southeast of Whittier and 54 miles (87 km) southwest of Cordova, Alaska.

Ocean Bay, Sitkalidak Island

Ocean Bay, Sitkalidak Island

Ocean Bay is on the southeast shore of Sitkalidak Island in the Kodiak Archipelago, about 56 miles (90 km) southwest of Kodiak and 9 miles (15 km) southeast of the village of Old Harbor, Alaska.

Copper River, Copper River Delta

Copper River, Copper River Delta

The Copper River watershed drains about 24,000 square miles (62,000 sq km) in the Wrangell, Chugach, and Saint Elias Mountains and the mainstem flows for about 290 miles (470 km) to the Gulf of Alaska where it creates a wide delta, about 195 miles west-northwest of Yakutat and 30 miles southeast of Cordova, Alaska.

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