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Cape Fairweather, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve

Cape Fairweather, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve

Cape Fairweather is a point of land created by an ancient terminal moraine at the base of the Fairweather Glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 131 miles (211 km) west-northwest of Juneau and 82 miles (132 km) southeast of Yakutat, Alaska.

Botanical Beach, Juan de Fuca Provincial Park

Botanical Beach, Juan de Fuca Provincial Park

Botanical Beach is located on San Juan Point in Botany Bay at the northern end of  Juan de Fuca Provincial Park on the south coast of Vancouver Island, about 50 miles (80 km) west-northwest of Victoria and 2 miles (3 km) south-southwest of Port Renfrew, British Columbia.

Chenega Glacier, Nassau Fjord

Chenega Glacier, Nassau Fjord

Chenega Glacier starts at an elevation of over 5,000 feet (1524 m) in the Sargent Icefield in Chugach National Forest and flows northeast for 10 miles (16 km) and then east for 4 miles (6 km) to Nassau Fjord on the western shore of Prince William Sound on the Kenai Peninsula, about 93 miles (150 km) west-southwest of Cordova and 37 miles (60 km) south-southeast of Whittier, Alaska.

Akhiok, Kodiak Island

Akhiok, Kodiak Island

Akhiok is the southernmost Alutiiq Sugpiat village on Kodiak Island, situated on Akhiok Bay which is on the western shore of Alitak Bay, about 167 miles (269 km) east-northeast of Chignik and 87 miles (140 km) southwest of Kodiak, Alaska.

Fort Point, Golden Gate

Fort Point, Golden Gate

Fort Point is a promontory where a historic masonry fortification, and later the southern approach of the Golden Gate Bridge, were constructed on the south side of the Golden Gate at the entrance to San Francisco Bay, about 4 miles (6 km) west-northwest of downtown San Francisco and 3 miles (5 km) south of Sausalito, California.

Tigalda, Krenitzin Islands

Tigalda, Krenitzin Islands

Tigalda Island is 12 miles (19 km) long with an area of about 22,400 acres (9,065 ha) and is one of the Krenitzin Islands in the Eastern Aleutians, about 84 miles (135 km) southwest of False Pass and 28 miles (45 km) east of Akutan, Alaska.

Cape Sebastian, Gold Beach

Cape Sebastian, Gold Beach

Cape Sebastian is a prominent headland with an elevation of about 640 feet (195 m) and is one of the 11 named capes along the Oregon coast, about 6.7 miles (10.8 km) south of Gold Beach and 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Pistol River, Oregon.

Symonds Bay, Biorka Island

Symonds Bay, Biorka Island

Symonds Bay is on the north coast of Biorka Island, between Hanus Point to the east and Entrance Islet to the west, and extends about 0.9 miles (1.4 km) south to a gravel isthmus with a beach landing, about 184 miles (296 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 16 miles (26 km) south-southwest of Sitka, Alaska.

Dodge Cove, Digby Island

Dodge Cove, Digby Island

Dodge Cove is a small community located on Digby Island, across from Kaien Island on the west side of Prince Rupert Harbour, about 88 miles (142 km) southeast of Ketchikan and 3 miles (5 km) southwest of Prince Rupert, British Columbia.

Pelican, Lisianski Inlet

Pelican, Lisianski Inlet

Pelican is a small community located on the east side of Lisianski Inlet on the north coast of Chichagof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, about 71 miles (114 km) north-northwest of Sitka and 17 miles (27 km) south of Elfin Cove, Alaska.

Fourth of July Creek, Resurrection Bay

Fourth of July Creek, Resurrection Bay

Fourth of July Creek originates from a series of unnamed glaciers and snowfields on the Resurrection Peninsula in the Chugach Mountains on the Kenai Peninsula, and flows generally west for 3.2 miles (5 km) to an alluvial fan where it joins Godwin River and then flows southwest for 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to Resurrection Bay, about 53 miles (85 km) south-southwest of Whittier and 3.6 miles (6 km) southeast of Seward, Alaska.

Point San Luis Light Station, Avila Beach

Point San Luis Light Station, Avila Beach

Point San Luis is the site of a historic light station on a peninsula formed by San Luis Hill, a headland with an elevation of 708 feet (216 m), that provides a sheltered harbor for Port San Luis and the community of Avila Beach on San Luis Obispo Bay, about 118 miles (190 km) south-southeast of Monterey and 7 miles (11 km) west-northwest of Pismo Beach, California.

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