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Cape Romanzof, Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta

Cape Romanzof, Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta

Cape Romanzof is a massive headland at the western end of the Askinuk Mountains on the Bering Sea coast of Southwest Alaska in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta between Kokechik and Scammon Bays, about 161 miles (259 km) northwest of Bethel and 20 miles (32 km) north of Hooper Bay, Alaska.

Coquille River, Bandon

Coquille River, Bandon

Coquille River drains a mountainous watershed of about 6.8 million acres (2.7 million ha) with at least 26 named tributaries and flows for about 36 miles (58 km) from the confluence of the North Fork and South Fork to the Pacific Ocean at Bandon, about 26 miles (42 km) north of Port Orford and 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Coos Bay, Oregon.

Quatsino, Quatsino Sound

Quatsino, Quatsino Sound

Quatsino is a small community located on Quatsino Sound on the northwestern coast of Vancouver Island, about 14 miles (23 km) south-southwest of Port Hardy and 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Port Alice, British Columbia.

Whale Bay, Prince William Sound

Whale Bay, Prince William Sound

Whale Bay lies on the northeastern coast of the Kenai Peninsula in Prince William Sound, extending 4 miles (6.5 km) northeast to the southern end of Knight Island Passage, about 88 miles (141 km) west-southwest of Cordova and 45 miles (73 km) east of Seward, Alaska.

Trident Seafoods, Akutan Island

Trident Seafoods, Akutan Island

Trident Seafoods operates the largest seafood processing facility in North America on Akutan Island, one of the Krenitzen Islands in the Fox Island group of the Eastern Aleutians, about 750 miles (1210 km) southwest of Anchorage and 36 miles (58 km) northeast of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. 

Lighthouse Point Park, Point Santa Cruz

Lighthouse Point Park, Point Santa Cruz

Lighthouse Point Park is located on Point Santa Cruz, adjacent to Lighthouse Field State Beach at the northern boundary of Monterey Bay, about 25 miles (40 km) north-northwest of Monterey and in Santa Cruz, California.

Rocky Cove, Cook Inlet

Rocky Cove, Cook Inlet

Rocky Cove is an embayment about 1 mile (1.6 km) wide at the base of Step Mountain, between Ursus Cove to the north and Bruin Bay to the south on the western shore of Cook Inlet, about 128 miles (206 km) northeast of Naknek and 76 miles (122 km) west-southwest of Homer, Alaska.

Brady Glacier, Taylor Bay

Brady Glacier, Taylor Bay

Brady Glacier lies in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, flowing from the Brady Icefield at 11,942 feet (3,640 m) in the Fairweather Range of the Saint Elias Mountains to Taylor Bay on Cross Sound’s north shore, about 139 miles (224 km) southeast of Yakutat and 32 miles (52 km) west of Gustavus, Alaska.

Sixes River, Cape Blanco

Sixes River, Cape Blanco

Sixes River drains a watershed of about 85,832 acres (34,735 ha) and flows generally west for about 31 miles (50 km) through coastal forests in southwestern Oregon and enters the Pacific Ocean just north of Cape Blanco, about 19 miles (31 km) south-southwest of Bandon and 8 miles (13 km) north-northwest of Port Orford, Oregon.

Cormorant Point, Gordon Head

Cormorant Point, Gordon Head

Cormorant Point is a headland between Cordova Bay and Margaret Bay in Saanich’s Gordon Head neighborhood, about 11 miles (18 km) south-southeast of Sidney and 5.5 miles (8.9 km) north-northeast of Victoria, British Columbia.

Halibut Cove Lagoon, Kachemak Bay

Halibut Cove Lagoon, Kachemak Bay

Halibut Cove Lagoon is a semi‐enclosed embayment 0.7 miles (1 km) wide at the head of Halibut Cove on Kachemak Bay’s southeast shore, on the Kenai Peninsula, about 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Seldovia and 13 miles (21 km) southeast of Homer, Alaska.

Auke Creek, Mendenhall Peninsula

Auke Creek, Mendenhall Peninsula

Auke Creek lies on the west coast of the Mendenhall Peninsula at the head of Auke Bay—a three‐mile (5 km) inlet at the northern end of Stephens Passage, about 66 miles (106 km) south‐southeast of Haines and 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Juneau, Alaska.

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