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Cathedral Rocks, Makushin Bay

Cathedral Rocks is an island 0.3 miles (0.5 km) west of Cathedral Point on the northern shore of Makushin Bay, on the west coast of Unalaska Island in the Eastern Aleutians, about 98 miles (158 km) northwest of Nikolski and 18 miles (29 km) southwest of Dutch Harbor, Alaska.

Kaliakh River, Malaspina Coastal Plain

Kaliakh River drains Hanna Lake and flows generally south through the Malaspina Coastal Plain for 24 miles (39 km) to the Gulf of Alaska, about 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Cape Yakataga and 106 miles (171 km) southeast of Cordova, 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.

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Igalik Island, Dease Inlet

Igalik Island, Dease Inlet

Igalik Island is an Arctic barrier island, the easternmost of the Plover Islands, approximately 2.5 miles (4 km) long, located at the entrance to Dease Inlet, about 36 miles (58 km) east-southeast of Utqiagvik, Alaska.

HMCS Mackenzie, Cornet Island

HMCS Mackenzie, Cornet Island

HMCS Mackenzie was a destroyer scuttled in Haro Strait, between Cornet and Gooch Islands in the Southern Gulf Islands, approximately 18 miles (29 km) north-northeast of Victoria and 5 miles (8 km) east-northeast of Sidney, British Columbia.

SS Pezuta, Tlell River

SS Pezuta, Tlell River

The Tlell River flows generally north-northeast for 28 miles (45 km) to Hecate Strait, near the wreck of the steamship SS Pezuta, about 29 miles (47 km) south-southeast of Masset and 4.5 miles (7 km) north of Tlell, British Columbia.

SS Uzbekistan, Darling River

SS Uzbekistan, Darling River

The wreck of the SS Uzbekistan is situated at the mouth of the Darling River, which flows south for 6 miles (10 km) through the heavily logged interior forests of southwestern Vancouver Island, about 31 miles (50 km) northwest of Port Renfrew and 9 miles (15 km) south-southeast of Bamfield, British Columbia.

Port Hobron, Sitkalidak Island

Port Hobron, Sitkalidak Island

Port Hobron is an abandoned whaling station on the south shore of a fjord with the same name situated on the north coast of Sitkalidak Island, about 6 miles (10 km) southeast of Old Harbor and 48 miles (77 km) south-southwest of Kodiak, Alaska.

Arch Cape Creek, Arch Cape

Arch Cape Creek, Arch Cape

Arch Cape is a small community at the mouth of Arch Cape Creek named after a natural sea arch in a basalt headland, about 25 miles (40 km) north-northwest of Tillamook and 6.5 miles (10 km) south of Cannon Beach, Oregon.

Nikiski Terminal Wharf, East Foreland

Nikiski Terminal Wharf, East Foreland

Nikiski Terminal Wharf forms part of the Port of Nikiski petroleum facility in upper Cook Inlet on the west coast of the Kenai Peninsula at East Foreland, about 63 miles (101 km) southwest of Anchorage and 10 miles (16 km) north-northwest of Kenai, Alaska.

Valencia Bluffs, West Coast Trail

Valencia Bluffs, West Coast Trail

Valencia Bluffs are sea cliffs along the West Coast Trail in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve on Vancouver Island’s southwest shore, about 29 miles (47 km) northwest of Port Renfrew and 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Bamfield, British Columbia.

Ancon Rock, Point Gustavus

Ancon Rock, Point Gustavus

Ancon Rock is a reef located about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) off Point Gustavus on the eastern shore, at the entrance to Glacier Bay within Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 55 miles (89 km) west of Juneau and 8.5 miles (12 km) southwest of Gustavus, Alaska.

Sledge Island, Bering Sea

Sledge Island, Bering Sea

Sledge Island, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) across, lies in the Bering Sea, 5 miles (8 km) off the Seward Peninsula’s south coast, about 95 miles (153 km) southeast of Wales and 25 miles (40 km) west of Nome, Alaska.

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