Nature · British Columbia · main summit section · bounded southern view
Mount Robson: terrain elevation and local relief
Mount Robson uses an approximately 3,916-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,936 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 3,916 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- British Columbia · main summit section · bounded southern view
- In feet, rounded
- 12,846.6 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
- 3915.6 m at 53.110833°, -119.157083°.
- Local base
- 979.5 m at 53.088333°, -119.198750°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West -119.238958°, east -119.074792°; south 53.079306°, north 53.142083°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 27.9 m east-west and 30.9 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
BC Parks lists Mount Robson at 3,954 meters and describes a much lower Fraser River valley reference near 800 meters. This smaller Copernicus section reaches about 3,916 meters, with its lowest sample near 980 meters. Those are deliberately different boundaries: the section’s local relief cannot be substituted for the full valley-to-summit rise described by the park.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 979.5 meters at 53.088333° latitude, -119.198750° longitude. This produces about 2,936 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 Robson uses an approximately 3,916-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,936 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- BC Parks: Mount Robson Park, summit and valley elevations
- 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 park’s 3,954-meter summit listing and this roughly 3,916-meter sampled surface stay separate. Changing the base changes the relief measurement, not the mountain’s shape.
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