Photos From Around the North Pacific

Mike Korostelev / Getty Waves crash over a Pacific walrus on a beach in Chukotka, Russia.Byron M. O'Neal / Getty. A humpback whale raises its tail before a deep-feeding dive, with the Port of Tacoma and Mount Rainier in the background.Wolfgang Kaehler / Light Rocket / Getty. 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.Naoki Haranaka / The Yomiuri Shimbun / Reuters 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.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 Cann