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Guard Islands, Tongass Narrows

Guard Islands are separated from Vallenar Point at the northern tip of Gravina Island by Inside Passage, a channel that connects the northern entrance of Tongass Narrows to the east from Clarence Strait to the west, and are part of an island chain that includes Vallenar Rocks, about 73 miles (118 km) south-southeast of Wrangell and 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Ketchikan, Alaska.

Friday Harbor Laboratories, San Juan Island

Friday Harbor Laboratories is a marine biology field station of the University of Washington situated on the northern shore of Friday Harbor, an embayment on the eastern coast of San Juan Island, about 72 miles (116 km) northwest of Seattle and 18 miles (29 km) west of Anacortes, Washington.

Chirikof Island, Kodiak Archipelago

Chirikof Island is about 33,000 acres (13,000 ha) and part of the Kodiak Island Archipelago located in the western Gulf of Alaska, about 180 miles (290 km) southwest of Kodiak and 137 miles (221 km) east of Perryville, Alaska.

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Kendrick Island, Wakes Cove Provincial Park

Kendrick Island, Wakes Cove Provincial Park

Kendrick Island is surrounded by Wakes Cove Provincial Park near the eastern entrance to Gabriola Passage, 0.1 miles (0.2 km) off the northeast coast of Valdes Island, about 28 miles (45 km) southwest of Vancouver and 12 miles (19 km) east-southeast of Nanaimo, British Columbia.

Taz Basin, Granite Island

Taz Basin, Granite Island

Taz Basin is a small cove on the west coast of Granite Island, one of the Chiswell Islands on the south coast of Kenai Fjords National Park, about 61 miles (98 km) east of Homer and 34 miles (55 km) south-southwest of Seward, Alaska.

Weeping Wall, Umnak Island

Weeping Wall, Umnak Island

The Weeping Wall is a cliff with water seeps on the northwest side of Okmok Volcano on the northeastern part of Umnak Island, one of the Fox Islands in the Eastern Aleutians, about 73 miles (117 km) west-southwest of Dutch Harbor and 49 miles (79 km) north-northeast of Nikolski, Alaska.

Swartz Bay, North Saanich

Swartz Bay, North Saanich

Swartz Bay is at the north end of the Saanich Peninsula on Vancouver Island and is the location of a BC Ferries terminal that provides the marine link connecting Highway 17 with the mainland, about 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Tsawwassen and 2.7 miles (4.3 km) north of Sidney, British Columbia.

Kake, Kupreanof Island

Kake, Kupreanof Island

Kake is a Tlingit village on the northeastern shore of Keku Strait, on the northwest shore of Kupreanof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 95 miles (153 km) south-southeast of Juneau and 39 miles (63 km) west-northwest of Peterburg, Alaska.

Cooper Island, Beaufort Sea

Cooper Island, Beaufort Sea

Cooper Island is an Arctic barrier island and one of the Plover Islands on Elson Lagoon on the Beaufort Sea coast, about 129 miles (208 km) northwest of Nuiqsut and 24 miles (39 km) east of Utqiaġvik, Alaska.

Three Arch Rocks, Oceanside

Three Arch Rocks, Oceanside

Three Arch Rocks are massive arched basalt sea stacks located south of Cape Meares and 0.5 miles (0.9 km) offshore from Maxwell Point at the community of Oceanside, about 8 miles (13 km) south-southwest of Garibaldi and 2.7 miles (4 km) northwest of Netarts, Oregon.

Angoon, Kootznahoo Inlet

Angoon, Kootznahoo Inlet

Angoon is a historic Tlingit village located on an isthmus at the mouth of Kootznahoo Inlet on the eastern shore of Chatham Strait and the west coast of Admiralty Island, about 77 miles (124 km) northwest of Petersburg and 60 miles (97 km) southwest of Juneau, Alaska.

Hogg Island, Bluefox Bay

Hogg Island, Bluefox Bay

Hogg Island is the site of a historical fox farm and herring reduction plant situated in Bluefox Bay on Shelikof Strait and the northwest coast of Afognak Island, about 91 miles (147 km) southwest of Homer and 47 miles (76 km) north-northwest of Kodiak, Alaska.

Three Saints Harbor, Kodiak Island

Three Saints Harbor, Kodiak Island

Three Saints Harbor is the location of a historical Russian settlement established in 1784 on Three Saints Bay on the east coast of Kodiak Island, about 63 miles (101 km) southwest of Kodiak and 29 miles (47 km) northeast of Akhiok, Alaska.

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