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Clausen Memorial Museum

Clausen Memorial Museum from directly overhead

Clausen Memorial Museum is a museum in Alaska, at a modelled elevation of 16 m. Twin Peaks stands 2,087 m to the east-northeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Buschmann Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Alaska's Marine Highway passes 0.3 miles off. 66 named places lie within 25 miles, 57 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Fee: Yes

Official site

Getting there

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Coordinates56.81265, -132.95445

0.3 mi off the Alaska's Marine Highway, National

Overlooks nearby

Whale Observatory · 1 mi

Around it

66 named places within 25 miles

Peaks57

Narrows Peak: 2.0 mi
Survey Mountains: 3.9 mi
Del Monte Peak: 4.7 mi
Sherman Peak: 6.8 mi
Sheridan Peak: 7.2 mi

Parks7

Buschmann Park: 0.1 mi
Eagle's Roost Park: 0.3 mi
Mort Freyer Sports Park: 0.4 mi
Marine Park: 0.9 mi
Marine Mammal Park: 1.1 mi

Historic sites1

Sons of Norway Hall: 0.2 mi

Picnic sites1

Blind Slough: 14.7 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

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

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Twin Peaks	ENE 65°	2,087 m	21.9 mi
House Peak	ENE 62°	1,829 m	17.4 mi
Mount Tofu	E 80°	1,764 m	24.9 mi
Pin Peaks	ENE 63°	1,745 m	16.6 mi
Dupont Peak	ENE 70°	1,703 m	16.5 mi
Simpson Peak	ENE 76°	1,624 m	18.2 mi
Saw Peaks	ENE 61°	1,600 m	15.7 mi
Preble Peak	NNE 23°	1,580 m	22.0 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:54	19:16	20:06
June solstice	04:59	21:43	22:49
September equinox	07:38	19:03	19:53
December solstice	10:28	15:48	17:13

Local time (America/Vancouver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	31	32	35	41	49	54	56	56	51	43	36	32
Precip in	11.4	7.6	7.6	6.7	5.9	5.0	5.6	8.2	14.4	13.8	12.3	11.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Petersburg 1, under a mile away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap Official site

OpenStreetMap element way/550991989

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