Nature · Margherita summit area · Rwenzori terrain section
Mount Stanley: terrain elevation and local relief
Mount Stanley uses an approximately 5,024-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,618 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 5,024 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Margherita summit area · Rwenzori terrain section
- In feet, rounded
- 16,484.3 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
- 5024.4 m at 0.385556°, 29.872500°.
- Local base
- 2406.1 m at 0.416944°, 29.822222°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West 29.822083°, east 29.920972°; south 0.354306°, north 0.417639°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 30.9 m east-west and 30.7 m north-south. Lower and surrounding terrain omitted.
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A little more perspective
The Uganda Bureau of Statistics’ 2023 ecosystem accounts list Mount Stanley at 5,109 meters. This section is centered on the Margherita summit area, where its highest Copernicus sample reaches about 5,024 meters in EGM2008. The model includes adjacent ridges and valleys but cannot resolve sharp rock and ice boundaries at survey precision. Its neutral shading is not a present-day glacier inventory.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 2406.1 meters at 0.416944° latitude, 29.822222° longitude. This produces about 2,618 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 Stanley uses an approximately 5,024-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,618 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- Uganda Bureau of Statistics: Uganda Ecosystem Service and Asset Value Accounts, 2023, p. 8
- 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 approximately 5,024-meter sampled surface is separate from the bureau’s 5,109-meter Mount Stanley reference. Margherita identifies the chosen summit area within the massif.
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