Nature · Selected limestone summit area · bounded southern section
Puncak Jaya / Carstensz Pyramid: terrain elevation and local relief
Puncak Jaya / Carstensz Pyramid uses an approximately 4,804-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,077 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 4,804 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Selected limestone summit area · bounded southern section
- In feet, rounded
- 15,761.1 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
- 4804.0 m at -4.083333°, 137.185000°.
- Local base
- 2726.6 m at -4.114722°, 137.174167°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West 137.133750°, east 137.232917°; south -4.114861°, north -4.051528°.
- 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 American Alpine Journal’s 1995 Seven Summits reference lists Carstensz Pyramid at 4,884 meters. This Copernicus section reaches about 4,804 meters in EGM2008 near the selected Puncak Jaya summit area. Sharp limestone ridges are softened by the global surface grid. The record names this individual peak rather than transferring its altitude to nearby summits, and the neutral surface is not a current glacier reconstruction.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 2726.6 meters at -4.114722° latitude, 137.174167° longitude. This produces about 2,077 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
Puncak Jaya / Carstensz Pyramid uses an approximately 4,804-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,077 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- American Alpine Journal 1995: The Seven Summits, Carstensz Pyramid reference
- 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 4,804-meter sampled surface stays separate from the journal’s 4,884-meter Carstensz Pyramid reference. Puncak Jaya remains searchable under the same record.
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