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Neva, Kruzof Island
In 1813, the Russian exploration ship Neva wrecked near Kruzof Island, about 93 miles (150 km) southwest of Juneau and 10 miles (16 km) west of Sitka, Alaska.
Michigan Creek, Pacific Rim National Park Reserve
Michigan Creek starts at an elevation of 1400 feet (427 m) and flows generally south for 4 miles (6.4 km) through the coast mountains on Vancouver Island and enters the Pacific Ocean in the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the Pachena Point Light Station, about 81 miles (130 km) west-northwest of Victoria and 8.5 miles (14 km) southeast of Bamfield, British Columbia.
Surf Beach, Santa Ynez River
Surf Beach is within Vandenberg Space Force Base and extends south-southwest for about 4.5 miles (7.3 km) from the mouth of the Santa Ynez River estuary to Spring Canyon, about 31 miles (50 km) south of Pismo Beach and 9 miles (14.5 km) west-northwest of Lompoc, California.
Mary D. Hume, Rogue River
Mary D. Hume sank in 1984 on the south bank of the Rogue River during a restoration effort to convert the vessel to a museum ship for the Curry County Historical Society and now rests on the bottom in shallow water with a portion of the hull and superstructure exposed at low tide near Gold Beach, Oregon.
Cape Beale, Barkley Sound
Cape Beale is the site of a historic lighthouse marking the southern entrance to Barkley Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, about 89 miles (143 km) west-northwest of Victoria and 4.7 miles (7.6 km) southwest of Bamfield, British Columbia.
Point Lena, Favorite Channel
Point Lena is located on Favorite Channel, between Point Stephens to the north and Point Louisa to the south, and is the site of an infamous historical shipwreck and the present-day Ted Stevens Marine Research Institute, about 63 miles (102 km) south-southeast of Haines and 14 miles (23 km) northwest of Juneau, Alaska.
Point Franklin, Peard Bay
Point Franklin is the site of several whaling shipwrecks at the end of a barrier spit that extends 13 miles (21 km) northeast from the Arctic Coastal Plain, and together with the Seahorse Islands, separates Peard Bay from the Chukchi Sea, about 54 miles (87 km) southwest of Utqiaġvik and 33 miles (53 km) northeast of Wainwright, Alaska.
Cape Pankof, Ikatan Peninsula
Cape Pankof is a point of land situated at the eastern tip of the lkatan Peninsula on Unimak Island and the site of the shipwrecked SS Oduna, about 148 miles (239 km) northeast of Dutch Harbor and 18 miles (29 km) southeast of False Pass, Alaska.
Siuslaw River, Florence
Siuslaw River starts at an elevation of 636 feet (194 m) in the Coast Range and flows generally west-northwest for 110 miles (177 km) to the Pacific Ocean at Florence, draining a watershed of 494,720 acres (200,206 ha), about 53 miles (85 km) west of Eugene and 43 miles (69 km) south of Newport, Oregon.
Corea Creek, Clam Gulch
Corea Creek drains a fen at an elevation of 200 feet (60 m) on the Kenai Peninsula and flows generally southwest for 2.4 miles (4 km) to the eastern shore of Cook Inlet and the site of a historic shipwreck, about 37 miles (60 km) north of Homer and 5 miles (8 km) south-southwest of Clam Gulch, Alaska.
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