Nature · New Zealand · High Peak section · bounded southern view
Aoraki / Mount Cook: terrain elevation and local relief
Aoraki / Mount Cook uses an approximately 3,658-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,847 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 3,658 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- New Zealand · High Peak section · bounded southern view
- In feet, rounded
- 12,001.6 ft (1 ft = 0.3048 m)
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Terrain boundary, base and datum
- Vertical reference
- EGM2008. Published surveys are separate; no datum conversion is applied.
- Highest sampled surface
- 3658.1 m at -43.595278°, 170.141944°.
- Local base
- 811.4 m at -43.613333°, 170.079444°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West 170.073750°, east 170.209861°; south -43.626528°, north -43.563472°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 22.4 m east-west and 30.9 m north-south. Lower and surrounding terrain omitted.
produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved
A little more perspective
The University of Otago’s AORAKI2013 project measured Aoraki’s summit at 3,724 meters using a detailed photogrammetric model checked with GPS observations on the nearby ice cap and Summit Rocks. This coarser global surface section reaches about 3,658 meters in EGM2008, with a visibly softened summit ridge. It is a different dataset and is not a current snow or rockfall survey; the published High Peak reference stays independent of this raster.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 811.4 meters at -43.613333° latitude, 170.079444° longitude. This produces about 2,847 meters of relief within the stated boundary. It is not a universal mountain base, a route’s total ascent, or topographic prominence.
The rendered surface uses the public 2021 Copernicus release, primarily based on TanDEM-X observations from 2011–2015 with infill from other sources. It is a surface model rather than a current bare-earth survey. Neutral shading explains the geometry without claiming a snow season or photographic ground texture. No datum conversion or summit correction is applied.
Quick facts
Aoraki / Mount Cook uses an approximately 3,658-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,847 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- University of Otago: AORAKI2013 summit survey
- Copernicus DEM: dataset definition, datums and attribution
- Public Copernicus GLO-30 release documentation
- Wikidata: summit-area identity and initial coordinate
- Copernicus source terrain tile 1 (GeoTIFF)
Aoraki’s approximately 3,658-meter global dataset maximum does not replace the 3,724-meter result from the University of Otago’s dedicated summit survey.
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