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Osland, Smith Island

Osland was once an active fishing and boatbuilding community on the east coast of Smith Island at the mouth of the Skeena River, about 68 miles (109 km) southwest of Terrace and 14 miles (23 km) south-southeast of Prince Rupert, British Columbia.

Humpback Bay, Porcher Island

Humpback Bay is an embayment on the north coast of Porcher Island off Malacca Passage, about 15 miles (24 km) south of Prince Rupert, British Columbia.

Hunter Bay, Prince of Wales Island

Hunter Bay is the estuary for several watersheds that support important sockeyes salmon populations and the site of a historical salmon cannery on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island near the abandoned village of Klinkwan, about 89 miles (143 km) northwest of Prince Rupert, British Columbia, and 42 miles (68 km) southwest of Ketchikan, Alaska.

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Fisgard Island, Esquimalt Harbour

Fisgard Island, Esquimalt Harbour

Fisgard Island Light Station is located in Royal Roads off the southern shore of Vancouver Island at the entrance to Esquimalt Harbour, about 3.6 miles (5.8 km) west of Victoria and in the community of Colwood, British Columbia.

Craig, Prince of Wales Island

Craig, Prince of Wales Island

Craig is a community on the western coast of Prince of Wales Island approximately 56 miles (90 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 220 miles (350 km) south of Juneau, Alaska.

Sidney Spit, Sidney Island

Sidney Spit, Sidney Island

Sidney Island is one of the southern Gulf Islands located in Haro Strait, about 45 miles (73 km) south-southwest of Vancouver and 2.8 miles (4.5 km) east of Sidney, British Columbia.

Kaguyak Village, Kodiak Island

Kaguyak Village, Kodiak Island

Kaguyak is an abandoned Alutiiq village on the Aliulik Peninsula on the southeastern coast of Kodiak Island at the head of Kaguyak Bay, about 165 miles (266 km) southeast of King Salmon and 81 miles (131 km) southwest of the city of Kodiak, Alaska.

Alitak Cannery, Lazy Bay

Alitak Cannery, Lazy Bay

Alitak is a historical salmon cannery and fish processing plant located on Lazy Bay at the southern end of Kodiak Island, about 152 miles (245 km) southeast of King Salmon and 92 miles (148 km) southwest of Kodiak, Alaska.

Sentinel Island, Lynn Canal

Sentinel Island, Lynn Canal

Sentinel Island is located along the eastern shore of Lynn Canal in the center of Favorite Channel near the northern entrance, about 51 miles (82 km) south-southeast of Haines and 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Juneau, Alaska.

Boat Pass, Saturna Island

Boat Pass, Saturna Island

Boat Pass is a channel between Saturna Island and Samuel Island that provides a passage for small boats between Winter Cove and the Strait of Georgia, about 32 miles (52 km) south-southwest of Vancouver and 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Sidney, British Columbia.

Refuge Rock, Partition Cove

Refuge Rock, Partition Cove

Refuge Rock is in Partition Cove on the eastern shore of Sitkalidak Island, about 54 miles (87 km) southwest of Kodiak and 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Old Harbor, Alaska.

Tillamook Rock, Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge

Tillamook Rock, Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge

Tillamook Rock is the site of a deactivated lighthouse located about 1.3 miles (2km) west of Tillamook Head in the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge, about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Astoria and 34 miles (39 km) north-northwest of Tillamook, Oregon.

Aghiyuk, Semidi Islands

Aghiyuk, Semidi Islands

The Semidi Islands are a group of rocks, reefs, and islands lying off the coast of the Alaska Peninsula in the Gulf of Alaska, about 92 miles (148 km) east-northeast of Perryville, and 61 miles (98 km) east of Chignik, Alaska.

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