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Point Barrow, Elson Lagoon

Point Barrow is a spit that extends northeast from the mainland for 4 miles (6.4 km) into the Arctic Ocean forming Elson Lagoon to the southeast, about 150 miles (242 km) northwest of Nuiqsut and 9.8 miles (16 km) northeast of Utqiaġvik, Alaska.

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.

La Honda Canyon, Point Pedernales

La Honda Canyon is a valley formed by Cañada Honda Creek that enters the Pacific Ocean 0.4 miles (0.6 km) near Woodbury Rocks north of Point Pedernales, about 56 miles (90 km) west-northwest of Santa Barbara and 11 miles (18 km) west-southwest of Lompoc, California.

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Minter, Henderson Bay

Minter, Henderson Bay

Minter is a community on the northwestern shore of Henderson Bay, at the head of Carr Inlet in South Puget Sound, about 24 miles (39 km) southwest of Seattle and 5.5 miles (9 km) northwest of Gig Harbor, Washington.

Nikiski Bay, Cook Inlet

Nikiski Bay, Cook Inlet

Nikiski Bay, formerly known as Nikishka Bay, is a bight in Upper Cook Inlet that extends southwest for 4 miles (6.5 km) from Boulder Point along the southeast shore of Gompertz Channel, 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the community of Nikiski and about 14 miles (22.6 km) north of Kenai, Alaska.

Star of Bengal, China Cove

Star of Bengal, China Cove

China Cove is a small embayment, about 1.7 miles (2.7 km) wide, on the southeast coast of Coronation Island, located between Chatham and Sumner Straits, 93 miles (150 km) south-southeast of Sitka and 106 miles (171 km) northwest of Ketchikan, Alaska.

Uyak Bay, Kodiak Island

Uyak Bay, Kodiak Island

Uyak Bay extends south-southeast for 40 miles (65 km) off Shelikof Strait on the northwest coast of Kodiak Island, 59 miles (95 km) west-southwest of the community of Kodiak, Alaska.

Igalik Island, Dease Inlet

Igalik Island, Dease Inlet

lgalik Island is an arctic barrier island and the easternmost of the Plover Islands, 2.5 miles (4 km) long, at the entrance to Dease Inlet, 36 miles (58 km) east-southeast of Utqiagvik, Alaska.

HMCS Mackenzie, Cornet Island

HMCS Mackenzie, Cornet Island

HMCS Mackenzie was a destroyer launched in 1961 and served until 1993 in the Royal Canadian Navy and in the Canadian Forces before being scuttled in Haro Strait in a channel between Cornet and Gooch Islands in the Southern Gulf Islands, about 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

Tlell River starts on the eastern flank of Graham Island in Haida Gwaii and drains a watershed of about 85,000 acres (34,400 ha), flowing 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

Darling River flows generally south for 6 miles (10 km) from heavily logged interior forests of southwestern Vancouver Island, through the coastal strip of the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve to the site of the Russian SS Uzbekistan shipwreck, about 31 miles (50 km) northwest of Port Renfrew and 9 miles (15 km) south-southeast of Bamfield, British Columbia.

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 Dock, East Foreland

Nikiski Terminal Dock, East Foreland

Nikiski Terminal Wharf is 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.

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