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Point Wilson Light Station, Fort Worden
Point Wilson is the site of a historic light station on the grounds of former Fort Worden, situated on a low, broad sand spit that extends northeast for 1.5 miles (0.8 km) from the northern end of the Quimper Peninsula into Admiralty Inlet, about 31 miles (50 km) east of Port Angeles and 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Port Townsend, Washington.
Point Resistance, Point Reyes National Seashore
Point Resistance is a headland on Drakes Bay, on the western shore of the Marin Peninsula, at the north end of Kelham Beach in the Phillip Burton Wilderness of Point Reyes National Seashore, about 27 miles (44 km) northwest of San Francisco and 3.5 miles (7 km) southwest of Olema, California.
Canoe Passage, Hawkins Island
Canoe Passage is a State of Alaska Marine Park covering 2,507 acres (1,015 ha), encompassing both shores of a small-boat passage running northwest–southeast through Hawkins Island, in southeastern Prince William Sound, about 44 miles (71 km) south-southeast of Valdez and 11 miles (18 km) west of Cordova, Alaska.
Ebey’s Landing, Whidbey Island
Ebey’s Landing is a beach on the southwest coast of Whidbey Island, on Admiralty Inlet in northern Puget Sound, about 45 miles (72 km) north-northwest of Seattle and 2 miles (3.2 km) south-southwest of Coupeville, Washington.
Takli Island, Amalik Bay
Takli Island is in Amalik Bay, between Cape Ilktugitak to the southwest and Cape Atushagvik to the northeast, along the Shelikof Strait coast of the Alaska Peninsula in Katmai National Park and Preserve, about 154 miles (248 kilometers) southwest of Homer and 81 miles (130 kilometers) west-northwest of Kodiak, Alaska.
James Lagoon, McCarty Fjord
James Lagoon is a drowned cirque basin about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) wide, partially enclosed by the remains of a terminal moraine, on the western shore of McCarty Fjord in Kenai Fjords National Park, about 51 miles (82 km) southwest of Seward and 40 miles (64 km) east-southeast of Homer, Alaska.
Jug Handle Cove, Ecological Staircase
Jug Handle Cove is a California State Natural Preserve made up of a series of ancient marine terraces, known as the Ecological Staircase, which exhibit different stages of ecological succession at the mouth of Jug Handle Creek, about 5 miles (8 km) south of Fort Bragg and 5 miles (8 km) north of Mendocino, California.
Old Sitka, Starrigavan Bay
Old Sitka is the site of a historical Russian settlement called Redoubt Saint Archangel Michael on the southern shore of Starrigavan Bay in Sitka Sound on the west coast of Baranof Island, about 232 miles (373 km) southeast of Yakutat and 5.5 miles (9 km) north of Sitka, Alaska.
Scidmore Bay, Gilbert Peninsula
Scidmore Bay, enclosed by the Gilbert Peninsula to the east and the Fairweather Mountains to the west, lies in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 119 miles (192 km) southeast of Yakutat and 43 miles (69 km) northwest of Gustavus, Alaska.
Lobos Creek, Baker Beach
Lobos Creek is a stream in the Presidio of San Francisco, draining urban runoff and underground springs and flowing intermittently west for 1 mile (1.6 km) from near Mountain Lake to the Pacific Ocean between Baker Beach and China Beach, about 5 miles (8 km) west of downtown San Francisco and at Sea Cliff, California.
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