Nature · Main summit · Kanchenjunga · bounded southern view
Kangchenjunga: terrain elevation and local relief
Kangchenjunga uses an approximately 8,564-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 3,452 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 8,564 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Main summit · Kanchenjunga · bounded southern view
- In feet, rounded
- 28,098.1 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
- 8564.3 m at 27.702778°, 88.147500°.
- Local base
- 5111.8 m at 27.674722°, 88.095833°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West 88.091528°, east 88.202917°; south 27.671528°, north 27.734583°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 27.4 m east-west and 30.8 m north-south. Lower and surrounding terrain omitted.
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A little more perspective
Nepal Tourism Board lists Kanchenjunga at 8,586 meters. This section follows the main summit and neighboring ridges, with a highest sampled surface of about 8,564 meters in EGM2008. The published mountain elevation remains an independent reference; subordinate summits are not given separate copies of the main summit’s measurement.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 5111.8 meters at 27.674722° latitude, 88.095833° longitude. This produces about 3,452 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
Kangchenjunga uses an approximately 8,564-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 3,452 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- Nepal Tourism Board: Kanchenjunga
- 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)
The modeled section reaches approximately 8,564 meters. Nepal Tourism Board’s 8,586-meter figure is a separate summit reference.
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