Photos From Around the North Pacific

Mike Korostelev / GettyWaves crash over a Pacific walrus on a beach in Chukotka, Russia.Byron M. O'Neal / GettyA humpback whale raises its tail before a deep-feeding dive, with the Port of Tacoma and Mount Rainier in the background.Wolfgang Kaehler / LightRocket / GettyA 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.Naoki Haranaka / The Yomiuri Shimbun / ReutersSalmon, on their way to spawn, swim through the surf near the mouth of a river in Mashike, Hokkaido prefecture, Japan, on September 24, 2023.Andronius / iStockphoto / GettyThe 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.Michael Nolan / RobertHarding / GettyThe 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.Edb3_16 / iStockphoto / GettyCurious sea lions swim beside a diver near Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada.Streeter Lecka / GettyA 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.James MacDonald / Bloomberg / GettyAn aerial view of homes built along the coast in the Oak Bay neighborhood of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, seen on July 1, 2025Sergei Dubrovskii / iStockphoto / GettyA reindeer herd is brought to a new camp along the seacoast on Sakhalin Island.Craig Tuttle / Design Pics Editorial / Universal Images Group / GettyMorning fog lingers over Ecola State Park in northern Oregon, not far from Haystack Rock and Cannon Beach.Michael Nolan / RobertHarding / GettyA sea-otter mother swims with her pup near Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park.JanelleLugge / GettyVisitors in a small boat observe a volcanic flow reaching the ocean on Russia’s Chirpoy Island.Tim Rue / Bloomberg / GettyA cruise ship passes in front of Margerie Glacier in Alaska’s Glacier Bay on July 12, 2019.Joe Raedle / GettyAn 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.Ondrej Prosicky / iStockphoto / GettyA Steller’s sea eagle reaches for something in icy water in Sakhalin, Russia.Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times / GettyThe Battery Point Lighthouse stands above Crescent City, California, seen on April 13, 2020.Andrey Nekrasov / ZUMA Wire / ReutersA diver interacts with a beluga whale in the Sea of Japan on October 15, 2014, along Russia’s Russky Island.Spiridon Sleptsov / iStockphoto / GettyA brown bear rests on driftwood on a beach along the Sea of Okhotsk, in Russia’s Khabarovsk Krai.Alexander Piragis / GettyA view of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Kamchatka Krai, Russia, backdropped by the Koryaksky Volcano, seen on August 31, 2020.John_Brueske / GettyTillamook Rock Light, a deactivated lighthouse, sits on a small rock outcrop off the northern Oregon coast.Janelle Lugge / iStockphoto / GettyFur seals run into the surf near an abandoned structure on Tyuleny Island, in the Sea of Okhotsk.Roclwyr / iStockphoto / GettyA pod of orcas swims near Washington’s San Juan Islands.Sandirais / RooM RF / GettyThe Married Couple Rocks, a sacred rock formation joined by a long rope, photographed at sunrise near a Shinto shrine in Mie prefecture, Japan