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Japanese Peace Monument

Japanese Peace Monument from directly overhead

Japanese Peace Monument is a historic site in Alaska, at a modelled elevation of 192 m. Attu Mountain stands 898 m to the west, 8.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Engineer Hill, a peak less than a tenth of a mile away. 52 named places lie within 25 miles, 30 of them named summits.

The story

1943 battle in the Pacific theatre of World War II

Wikidata Q700572, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

What the record says

Built
1942

How to reach it

Coordinates52.88467, 173.18384

52 named places within 25 miles

Peaks: 30
  • Engineer Hill: 0.0 mi
  • Cold Mountain: 1.7 mi
  • Newman Peak: 1.8 mi
  • Southwest Peak: 2.1 mi
  • Buffalo Head: 2.2 mi
Beaches: 20
Historic sites: 1
Cliffs: 1
  • Northeast Bluff: 7.2 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Attu MountainW 274°897.9 m8.5 mi
Devils MountainSW 235°788 m2.9 mi
Cold MountainNW 307°693 m1.7 mi
Terrible MountainSSW 211°692 m2.3 mi
Middle PeakENE 61°648 m3.9 mi
Southwest PeakNNE 29°619 m2.1 mi
Newman PeakNNE 22°605 m1.8 mi
Matthews MountainESE 114°595 m6.6 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 solstice10:3817:0718:13

Local time (America/Adak).

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

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

OpenStreetMap element node/3684733193

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