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Bay Model Visitor Center

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Elevation, modelled
4 m
Tallest summit within 8.6 miles
Mount Tamalpais East Peak784 m · 6.4 mi
Sunset, June solstice
20:36local time
Coordinates
37.8637, -122.4947

Bay Model Visitor Center is a museum in California, at a modelled 4 m. Mount Tamalpais East Peak stands 784 m to the northwest, 6.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Marinship Exhibit, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away.

A surviving building from Marinship WWII Shipyard. Not eligible for listing on the National or California Registry of Historic Places.

hydraulic scale model

Wikidata Q7863054, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

Built
1942
Fee
No

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 8.6 miles of Bay Model Visitor Center. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount Tamalpais East PeakNW 315°784 m6.4 mi
Mount Tamalpais West PeakNW 307°778 m6.9 mi
Mount Tamalpais Middle PeakNW 311°744 m6.7 mi
Ballou PointWNW 295°612 m7.8 mi
Twin KnollsWNW 298°597 m8.4 mi
Mount Tamalpais West PointNW 304°527 m6.5 mi
Bare KnollWNW 291°478 m7.2 mi
Wooded KnollWNW 291°465 m7.3 mi

Named places within 25 miles

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1418:4819:22
June solstice05:4919:5720:36
September equinox06:5918:3419:09
December solstice07:2316:1416:55

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

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