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Port Althorp, Chichagof Island

Port Althorp is an embayment and the site of a historical salmon cannery on the north coast of Chichagof Island, about 155 miles (250 km) southeast of Yakutat and 29 miles (47 km) southwest of Gustavus, Alaska.

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.

Viekoda Bay, Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge

Viekoda Bay is a deglaciated fjord that extends southeast for 18 miles (29 km) from Shelikof Strait on the northwestern coast of Kodiak Island, about 134 miles (216 km) southwest of Homer and 26 miles (42 km) west-northwest of Kodiak, Alaska.

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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.

SS Clarksdale Victory, Hippa Island

SS Clarksdale Victory, Hippa Island

SS Clarksdale Victory is a shipwreck on the west coast of Hippa Island, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Graham Island in the Haida Gwaii Archipelago, about 49 miles (79 km) southwest of Masset and 42 miles (68 km) northwest of Queen Charlotte, British Columbia.

Bell Island, Behm Canal

Bell Island, Behm Canal

Bell Island is the site of a historic hot spring on Behm Canal, in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 49 miles (79 km) southeast of Wrangell and 40 miles (64 km) north-northeast of Ketchikan, Alaska.

Spook Island, Hydaburg

Spook Island, Hydaburg

Spook Island is in Cordova Bay, on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island, about 23 miles (37 km) southeast of Craig and across Sukkwan Strait from and 0.75 miles (1.2 km) west of Hydaburg, Alaska.

Skull Island, Massacre Bay

Skull Island, Massacre Bay

Skull Island is about 0.13 miles (0.2 km) long with an area of 2.5 acres (1.0 ha) situated at the head of Massacre Bay in West Sound, a large embayment on the southern shore of Orcas Island, about 25 miles (40 km) west-southwest of Bellingham and 8.5 miles (14 km) north-northeast of Friday Harbor, Washington.

Little Island, Lynn Canal

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.

Fairfax Point, Moresby Island

Fairfax Point, Moresby Island

Fairfax Point is a point of land at the southern tip of Moresby Island, one of the Southern Gulf Islands, about 41 miles (66 km) south-southwest of Vancouver and 6 miles (10 km) northeast of Sidney, British Columbia.

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