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West Beach

West Beach from directly overhead

West Beach is a beach in Alaska, at a modelled elevation of 1 m. Attu Mountain stands 898 m to the west-southwest, 6.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Cold Mountain, a peak 2.0 miles away. 52 named places lie within 25 miles, 30 of them named summits.

What the record says

Built
1942

How to reach it

Coordinates52.92523, 173.12717

52 named places within 25 miles

Peaks: 30
  • Cold Mountain: 2.0 mi
  • Buchanan Ridge: 2.3 mi
  • Cupps Hill: 2.6 mi
  • Fleishman Ridge: 2.7 mi
  • Black Mountain: 3.2 mi
Beaches: 19
Historic sites: 2
Cliffs: 1
  • Northeast Bluff: 3.9 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Attu MountainWSW 250°897.9 m6.5 mi
Devils MountainS 180°788 m4.5 mi
Cold MountainSSE 150°693 m2.0 mi
Terrible MountainSSE 166°692 m4.9 mi
Middle PeakE 99°648 m5.8 mi
Southwest PeakESE 106°619 m3.5 mi
Newman PeakESE 111°605 m3.2 mi
Matthews MountainESE 123°595 m10.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox09:3320:5421:39
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, 2 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/1111552387

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