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The islands and coastal regions of the United States range from the island of Martha's Vineyard to the rocky island of Alcatraz.
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Cape Canaveral, a cape midway on Florida's eastern coast. From 1963 to 1973 it was known as Cape Kennedy, after President John F. See more »
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Alaska Peninsula
Alaska Peninsula, a long, narrow tongue of land in Alaska. From Iliamna Lake the peninsula stretches generally south-westward for about 500 miles (800 km) almost to Unimak Island in the Aleutian chain.
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Alcatraz, a rocky island in San Francisco Bay, California, about one mile (1.6 km) offshore north of San Francisco.
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Alexander Archipelago, a group of about 1,100 islands and islets of southeastern Alaska.
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Cape Canaveral, a cape midway on Florida's eastern coast. From 1963 to 1973 it was known as Cape Kennedy, after President John F.
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Cape Cod, Massachusetts, the hooked peninsula of the southeastern part of the state.
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Fear, Cape, a cape, projecting into the Atlantic Ocean, on Smith Island in North Carolina.
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Flattery, Cape, the northwest tip of the state of Washington, between the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Pacific Ocean.
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Cape Hatteras, the southeastern point on the long shoals (sand bars) off North Carolina that enclose Pamlico and Albemarle sounds.
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Cape Henry, a point of land at the entrance to Chesapeake Bay, in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
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Prince of Wales, Cape, the westernmost point of the North American mainland. The cape is in Alaska at the western tip of Seward Peninsula on the Bering Strait, 55 miles (89 km) east-southeast of Cape Dezhnev, Siberia.
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Chesapeake Bay, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean extending into Maryland and Virginia.
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Delaware Bay, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, between Delaware and New Jersey. It is also the estuary of the Delaware River.
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Dry Tortugas, a group of small coral islands, or keys, in the Gulf of Mexico. They are part of the state of Florida.
See more »Ellis Island
Ellis Island, a 27-acre (11-hectare) island in New York Bay, about one mile (1.6 km) southwest of the southern tip of Manhattan Island.
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Governors Island, a 172-acre (70-hectare) an island in Upper New York Bay just south of Manhattan Island.
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Mexico, Gulf of, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean off the southeastern coast of North America.
See more »Kodiak Island
Kodiak Island, a large mountainous island off the southern coast of Alaska. The largest city on the island is also called Kodiak.
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Mackinac Island, an island of upper Michigan. It is in the Straits of Mackinac near St.
See more »Martha's Vineyard
Martha's Vineyard, an island 4 miles (6 km) south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Mount Desert Island, an offshore island of southern Maine, linked by bridge with the mainland.
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