Nature · Low’s Peak · tightly bounded summit-area section
Mount Kinabalu: terrain elevation and local relief
Mount Kinabalu uses an approximately 4,046-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 1,363 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 4,046 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Low’s Peak · tightly bounded summit-area section
- In feet, rounded
- 13,273.4 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
- 4045.7 m at 6.074444°, 116.558333°.
- Local base
- 2682.9 m at 6.083056°, 116.566389°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West 116.550417°, east 116.566806°; south 6.066806°, north 6.083194°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 30.7 m east-west and 30.7 m north-south. Lower and surrounding terrain omitted.
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A little more perspective
Sabah Parks lists Mount Kinabalu at 4,095 meters. This section selects Low’s Peak and reaches approximately 4,046 meters in EGM2008, about 69 meters from its identity coordinate. The narrow boundary excludes other high points on the broad summit plateau, so the image includes only part of the mountain’s upper slopes. The smooth surface cannot reproduce Low’s Peak’s finest granite features; the section minimum is not the start of the mountain’s rise.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 2682.9 meters at 6.083056° latitude, 116.566389° longitude. This produces about 1,363 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 Kinabalu uses an approximately 4,046-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 1,363 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- Sabah Parks: Kinabalu Park as a World Heritage Site
- 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 4,095-meter Sabah Parks reference remains independent of the approximately 4,046-meter Low’s Peak surface estimate.
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