Nature · Greater Ararat · GLO-90 summit and upper slopes
Mount Ararat: terrain elevation and local relief
Mount Ararat uses an approximately 5,107-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-90. The bounded terrain section has about 2,528 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 5,107 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Greater Ararat · GLO-90 summit and upper slopes
- In feet, rounded
- 16,756.6 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
- 5107.4 m at 39.701667°, 44.298333°.
- Local base
- 2579.6 m at 39.729167°, 44.361667°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West 44.233750°, east 44.362083°; south 39.670417°, north 39.733750°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 71.5 m east-west and 92.5 m north-south. Lower and surrounding terrain omitted.
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A little more perspective
Türkiye’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism lists Greater Ararat at 5,137 meters. The public GLO-30 tile is unavailable for this area, so this section uses the public Copernicus GLO-90 release and reaches approximately 5,107 meters in EGM2008, about 31 meters from the selected summit coordinate. Its native grid spacing is approximately 71 meters eastward and 93 meters northward here. Rendering a larger image does not add detail to that source grid. Lesser Ararat is a separate summit outside this section.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 2579.6 meters at 39.729167° latitude, 44.361667° longitude. This produces about 2,528 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
Mount Ararat uses an approximately 5,107-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-90. The bounded terrain section has about 2,528 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- Türkiye Ministry of Culture and Tourism: important mountains, Greater Ararat
- Copernicus DEM: dataset definition, datums and attribution
- Public Copernicus GLO-90 release documentation
- Wikidata: summit-area identity and initial coordinate
- Copernicus source terrain tile 1 (GeoTIFF)
The 5,137-meter ministry reference is independent of this approximately 5,107-meter, explicitly GLO-90 surface estimate.
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