Nature · Lombok · principal summit and upper slopes
Mount Rinjani: terrain elevation and local relief
Mount Rinjani uses an approximately 3,705-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,264 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 3,705 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Lombok · principal summit and upper slopes
- In feet, rounded
- 12,154.4 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
- 3704.7 m at -8.411667°, 116.458056°.
- Local base
- 1440.3 m at -8.380000°, 116.506389°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West 116.408194°, east 116.508194°; south -8.443194°, north -8.379861°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 30.6 m east-west and 30.7 m north-south. Lower and surrounding terrain omitted.
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A little more perspective
The Smithsonian lists Rinjani at 3,726 meters. The summit coordinate published by trekking operator Rinjani Dawn Adventures locates the principal summit more precisely than the generalized volcano-profile center. This Copernicus maximum is approximately 3,705 meters in EGM2008 and lies about 8 meters from that coordinate. The selected slopes do not include a complete base-to-summit route or the whole caldera.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 1440.3 meters at -8.380000° latitude, 116.506389° longitude. This produces about 2,264 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 Rinjani uses an approximately 3,705-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,264 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program: Rinjani
- Rinjani Dawn Adventures: firsthand summit coordinate and elevation reference
- Copernicus DEM: dataset definition, datums and attribution
- Public Copernicus GLO-30 release documentation
- Copernicus source terrain tile 1 (GeoTIFF)
Rinjani’s 3,726-meter reference remains separate from the approximately 3,705-meter sampled surface at the selected summit.
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