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Waves crash over a Pacific walrus on a beach in Chukotka, Russia.

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A humpback whale raises its tail before a deep-feeding dive, with the Port of Tacoma and Mount Rainier in the background.

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A spirit bear (Ursus americanus kermodei) walks along a river looking for salmon on Gribbell Island, Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia, Canada, on September 6, 2025.

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Salmon, on their way to spawn, swim through the surf near the mouth of a river in Mashike, Hokkaido prefecture, Japan, on September 24, 2023.

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The abandoned Aniva Lighthouse stands on the shore of Russia’s Sakhalin Island. The structure was built in the 1930s, during a period when this part of the island was controlled by Japan.

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The shell of a grounded B-24 Liberator bomber in Bechevin Bay, on Alaska’s Atka Island. Bad weather forced the crew to make a crash landing, which they survived, on December 9, 1942.

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Curious sea lions swim beside a diver near Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada.

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A group of surfers catch the bore tide on Turnagain Arm, near the town of Girdwood, Alaska, on July 15, 2014. Alaska’s famous bore tide occurs in a spot southeast of Anchorage, in the lower arm of Cook Inlet called Turnagain Arm, where wave heights can reach 6-10 feet and move at 10-15 mph. The water temperature stays around 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

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An aerial view of homes built along the coast in the Oak Bay neighborhood of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, seen on July 1, 2025

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A reindeer herd is brought to a new camp along the seacoast on Sakhalin Island.

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Morning fog lingers over Ecola State Park in northern Oregon, not far from Haystack Rock and Cannon Beach.

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A sea-otter mother swims with her pup near Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park.

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Visitors in a small boat observe a volcanic flow reaching the ocean on Russia’s Chirpoy Island.

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A cruise ship passes in front of Margerie Glacier in Alaska’s Glacier Bay on July 12, 2019.

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An aerial view from a drone shows the village of Kivalina, Alaska, which sits at the very end of an eight-mile barrier reef located between a lagoon and the Chukchi Sea, on September 10, 2019. Kivalina and a few other native coastal Alaskan villages face troubles because of the warming climate, which has resulted in the loss of sea ice that buffers the island’s shorelines from storm surges and coastal erosion.

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A Steller’s sea eagle reaches for something in icy water in Sakhalin, Russia.

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The Battery Point Lighthouse stands above Crescent City, California, seen on April 13, 2020.

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A diver interacts with a beluga whale in the Sea of Japan on October 15, 2014, along Russia’s Russky Island.

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A brown bear rests on driftwood on a beach along the Sea of Okhotsk, in Russia’s Khabarovsk Krai.

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A view of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Kamchatka Krai, Russia, backdropped by the Koryaksky Volcano, seen on August 31, 2020.

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Tillamook Rock Light, a deactivated lighthouse, sits on a small rock outcrop off the northern Oregon coast.

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Fur seals run into the surf near an abandoned structure on Tyuleny Island, in the Sea of Okhotsk.

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A pod of orcas swims near Washington’s San Juan Islands.

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The Married Couple Rocks, a sacred rock formation joined by a long rope, photographed at sunrise near a Shinto shrine in Mie prefecture, Japan