"Comfort Women" Column of Strength
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"Comfort Women" Column of Strength is a historic site in California, at a modelled elevation of 16 m. San Bruno Mountain Summit stands 371 m to the south-southwest, 7.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Saint Mary's Square, a park less than a tenth of a mile away.
The story
The San Francisco Comfort Women memorial is a monument dedicated to comfort women before and during World War II. It is built in remembrance of the girls and women that were sexually enslaved by the Imperial Japanese Army through deceit, coercion, and brutal force. It is approximated that there were around 400,000 "comfort women" from Korea, Taiwan, China, Indonesia, the Philippines and other Asian countries. The site is located near the Saint Mary's Square, at the crossroads of San Francisco Chinatown and the Financial District. The statue "Comfort Women" Column of Strength, by sculptor Steven Whyte, is one of nine and the first sculpture placed in a major U.S. city to commemorate the comfort women. In 2017, in protest of the memorial, Hirofumi Yoshimura—the mayor of Osaka, Japan—dissolved the sister-city relationship between Osaka and San Francisco that was established in 1957.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 2017-09-22.
Wikidata Q54958600, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 2017
- Material
- bronze;steel
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- The Banker's Heart: 0.1 mi
- Harmony: 0.2 mi
- Beyond the Sea - The Life and Legacy of Captain Leidesdorff: 0.2 mi
- Goddess of Democracy: 0.2 mi
- Blooming on Fragrance Alley: 0.2 mi
- Nob Hill: 0.6 mi
- Russian Hill: 0.7 mi
- Telegraph Hill: 0.8 mi
- Rincon Hill: 0.8 mi
- Lafayette Heights: 1.3 mi
- Saint Mary's Square: 0.0 mi
- Empire Park: 0.2 mi
- Willie "Woo Woo" Wong Park: 0.2 mi
- Transamerica Redwood Park: 0.3 mi
- Union Square: 0.3 mi
- Old Hilary's Botanical Preserve: 6.8 mi
- Cypress Ridge Open Space: 7.0 mi
- Crab Cove Marine Reserve: 7.1 mi
- Fort Funston: 7.3 mi
- Tern Nesting: 7.8 mi
- East Garden: 0.5 mi
- Sister City Gardens: 0.5 mi
- 123 Mission Plaza: 0.6 mi
- Learning Garden: 0.6 mi
- Filbert Steps Garden: 0.7 mi
- Rose Pak Memorial Tree: 0.0 mi
- Chinese-American World War Memorial: 0.0 mi
- Sun Yat-sen's statue: 0.1 mi
- Hudson's Bay Company: 0.2 mi
- Site of First U.S. Branch Mint: 0.2 mi
- Greg & Bev James Picnic Area: 1.2 mi
- Picnic Pod A: 3.0 mi
- West Portal Playground Picnic Area: 4.8 mi
- Udo & Jürgen's place: 5.5 mi
- Neptune: 7.1 mi
- Crane Cove Beach: 2.2 mi
- East Beach: 2.8 mi
- Marshall's Beach: 4.2 mi
- Sand Springs Beach: 4.6 mi
- Perles Beach: 4.7 mi
- Dragon Gate: 0.1 mi
- Bank of Canton (former Chinese Telephone Exchange): 0.2 mi
- Transamerica Pyramid: 0.3 mi
- California and Powell streets: 0.3 mi
- Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory: 0.3 mi
- Huntington Falls: 4.1 mi
- Rainbow Falls: 4.3 mi
- Grey Fox Creek Fountain: 5.0 mi
- Kent Falls: 11.5 mi
- Dawn Falls: 13.3 mi
- El Polín Spring: 2.7 mi
- Old Spring: 8.1 mi
- Lone Tree Spring: 13.1 mi
- Red Rock Spring: 14.0 mi
- Rock Springs: 14.0 mi
- Yellow Bluff: 4.8 mi
- East Slope Badlands: 8.7 mi
- Vent 5: 13.1 mi
- Aramai Point: 13.8 mi
- Chab: 15.6 mi
- Lynn: 9.4 mi
- Winehaven: 11.0 mi
- Russell City: 17.6 mi
- Stokes Landing: 19.6 mi
- Eckley: 21.2 mi
- Yerba Buena Island Lighthouse: 2.5 mi
- Quarters A: 2.6 mi
- Point Bonita Lighthouse: 7.0 mi
- Bird Island Arch: 7.6 mi
- Steep Ravine Hot Spring: 14.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.1 miles of "Comfort Women" Column of Strength. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Bruno Mountain Summit | SSW 193° | 371 m | 7.4 mi |
| Richardson East | NW 308° | 339 m | 6.6 mi |
| Peak 1041 | NW 304° | 317 m | 7.8 mi |
| Mount Davidson | SW 216° | 283 m | 4.6 mi |
| Slacker Hill | WNW 303° | 282 m | 5.5 mi |
| Hawk Hill | WNW 296° | 281 m | 5.7 mi |
| Mount Sutro | SW 231° | 278 m | 3.7 mi |
| Noe Peak | SW 220° | 274 m | 3.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:14 | 18:47 | 19:22 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 19:56 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 06:58 | 18:34 | 19:08 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 16:14 | 16:55 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 52 | 54 | 56 | 56 | 58 | 60 | 60 | 62 | 63 | 62 | 57 | 53 |
| Precip in | 4.4 | 4.4 | 3.2 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 4.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SAN Francisco Dwtn, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/6960892851
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