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Sri Pada / Adam’s Peak: terrain elevation and local relief
Sri Pada / Adam’s Peak uses an approximately 2,192-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 1,948 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 2,192 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Sri Lanka · summit-area surface including possible structures
- In feet, rounded
- 7,191.7 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
- 2192.0 m at 6.809444°, 80.499444°.
- Local base
- 244.4 m at 6.778056°, 80.451944°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West 80.449861°, east 80.549306°; south 6.777917°, north 6.841250°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 30.7 m east-west and 30.7 m north-south. Lower and surrounding terrain omitted.
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A little more perspective
Sri Lanka Tourism lists Adam’s Peak, also called Sri Pada, at 2,243 meters. This bounded Copernicus surface reaches approximately 2,192 meters in EGM2008. The summit’s narrow shape is softened by the source grid, and the digital surface model may include vegetation or built features without separating them from bare ground. The section’s lowest point is a mathematical relief base, not the beginning of a pilgrimage route. The Ministry of Education’s central-highlands map instead labels Samanala at 2,237 meters; that differing educational reference is not silently substituted for the tourism listing.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 244.4 meters at 6.778056° latitude, 80.451944° longitude. This produces about 1,948 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
Sri Pada / Adam’s Peak uses an approximately 2,192-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 1,948 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- Sri Lanka Tourism: pilgrimage attractions, Adam’s Peak
- Sri Lanka Ministry of Education: Grade 9 Geography, central-highlands map, differing Samanala label
- 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 2,243-meter tourism reference and approximately 2,192-meter sampled surface remain separate. The selected mountain is searchable under both names.
Source review recorded . Maintained by Ishan Karunaratne. Suggest a correction with a source and the exact measurement being compared.