Nature · Tahurangi summit area · older terrain surface
Mount Ruapehu: terrain elevation and local relief
Mount Ruapehu uses an approximately 2,772-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 1,522 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 2,772 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Tahurangi summit area · older terrain surface
- In feet, rounded
- 9,095.7 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
- 2772.4 m at -39.289444°, 175.562778°.
- Local base
- 1250.5 m at -39.300833°, 175.505000°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West 175.504861°, east 175.632361°; south -39.313194°, north -39.250139°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 24.0 m east-west and 30.8 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
The Department of Conservation’s report on its 1988 Ruapehu glacier survey identifies Tahurangi at 2,797 meters. This Copernicus section reaches about 2,772 meters in EGM2008 on the southern summit-rim area, away from the generalized volcano identity coordinate. The old glacier-survey reference and the later satellite surface have different acquisition periods. Neither describes current ice cover or crater conditions.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 1250.5 meters at -39.300833° latitude, 175.505000° longitude. This produces about 1,522 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 Ruapehu uses an approximately 2,772-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 1,522 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- Department of Conservation: 1988 survey of Ruapehu glaciers, introduction and summit photo point
- 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)
Tahurangi is the selected summit area. Its approximately 2,772-meter raster maximum and the DOC report’s 2,797-meter reference stay independent; the crater lake is not the measurement base.
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