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Red Beach

Red Beach from directly overhead

Red Beach is a beach in Alaska, at a modelled elevation of 9 m. Attu Mountain stands 898 m to the west-southwest, 9.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Northeast Bluff, a cliff 2.3 miles away. 52 named places lie within 25 miles, 30 of them named summits.

What the record says

Built
1942

How to reach it

Coordinates52.96176, 173.16466

52 named places within 25 miles

Peaks: 30
  • Cupps Hill: 2.4 mi
  • West Peak: 3.0 mi
  • Southwest Peak: 3.9 mi
  • Newman Peak: 4.0 mi
  • Vieth Hill: 4.1 mi
Beaches: 19
Historic sites: 2
Cliffs: 1
  • Northeast Bluff: 2.3 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Red Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Attu MountainWSW 238°897.9 m9.0 mi
Devils MountainSSW 193°788 m7.2 mi
Cold MountainS 187°693 m4.3 mi
Terrible MountainS 183°692 m7.3 mi
Middle PeakSE 130°648 m5.4 mi
Southwest PeakSSE 152°619 m3.9 mi
Newman PeakSSE 159°605 m4.0 mi
Matthews MountainSE 139°595 m10.5 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox09:3220:5421:39
June solstice07:0223:0023:57
September equinox09:1320:4421:30
December solstice10:3917:0718:13

Local time (America/Adak).

The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.

NOAA CO-OPS station Holtz Bay, 3 miaway — today’s predictions live there.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

National Register of Historic Places, reference 85002729OpenStreetMap
  • National Register of Historic Places — Attu Battlefield and U.S. Army and Navy Airfields on Attu, reference 85002729, listed 02/04/85.

OpenStreetMap element way/1276793803

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