Nature · Alaska · south summit · bounded southern view
Denali / Mount McKinley: terrain elevation and local relief
Denali / Mount McKinley uses an approximately 6,180-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 3,510 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 6,180 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Alaska · south summit · bounded southern view
- In feet, rounded
- 20,275.4 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
- 6179.9 m at 63.069444°, -151.006111°.
- Local base
- 2669.6 m at 63.038056°, -150.898333°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West -151.115278°, east -150.897500°; south 63.037917°, north 63.100694°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 28.1 m east-west and 31.0 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 National Park Service describes the June 2015 GPS survey of the south summit and its 20,310-foot snow-and-ice surface elevation, about 6,190.5 meters when converted with the exact foot-to-meter factor. That survey superseded the older 20,320-foot reference. This section’s Copernicus surface maximum is about 6,180 meters in EGM2008; both mountain names remain searchable.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 2669.6 meters at 63.038056° latitude, -150.898333° longitude. This produces about 3,510 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
Denali / Mount McKinley uses an approximately 6,180-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 3,510 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- National Park Service: Denali 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)
- Copernicus source terrain tile 2 (GeoTIFF)
The dated south-summit survey and this terrain model are separate references. The view does not measure the rock beneath the summit ice cap.
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