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Mount Wilhelm: terrain elevation and local relief
Mount Wilhelm uses an approximately 4,475-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 1,877 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 4,475 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Papua New Guinea · bounded summit-area terrain
- In feet, rounded
- 14,680.9 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
- 4474.7 m at -5.785833°, 145.032500°.
- Local base
- 2597.6 m at -5.759722°, 145.079167°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West 144.979861°, east 145.079306°; south -5.811528°, north -5.748194°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 30.8 m east-west and 30.7 m north-south. Lower and surrounding terrain omitted.
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A little more perspective
The 2022 Nature Communications study of montane bird diversity gives Mount Wilhelm as 4,509 meters above sea level when describing its northeast-slope field transect. This Copernicus section reaches about 4,475 meters in EGM2008. Its maximum lies south of the initial generalized mountain coordinate; the exact sampled point and section boundary are recorded. The illustration does not reconstruct the study’s bird sampling sites or vegetation.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 2597.6 meters at -5.759722° latitude, 145.079167° longitude. This produces about 1,877 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 Wilhelm uses an approximately 4,475-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 1,877 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- Nature Communications 13, 268 (2022): montane diversity study, sampling section
- 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)
- Copernicus source terrain tile 2 (GeoTIFF)
The study’s 4,509-meter geographic reference remains independent of this approximately 4,475-meter surface estimate. A field-study location description is not treated as a new summit survey.
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