Nature · Lesotho · broad summit plateau and escarpment terrain
Thabana Ntlenyana: terrain elevation and local relief
Thabana Ntlenyana uses an approximately 3,480-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 1,106 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 3,480 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Lesotho · broad summit plateau and escarpment terrain
- In feet, rounded
- 11,417.3 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
- 3480.0 m at -29.468333°, 29.269167°.
- Local base
- 2373.8 m at -29.497778°, 29.320278°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West 29.209861°, east 29.323194°; south -29.497917°, north -29.434861°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 26.9 m east-west and 30.8 m north-south. Lower and surrounding terrain omitted.
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A little more perspective
Lesotho Tourism Development Corporation’s travel-investor guide gives Thabana Ntlenyana an altitude of 3,482 meters. This bounded Copernicus section reaches approximately 3,480 meters in EGM2008 on the broad summit terrain. The close rounded values do not establish a common survey or datum. The section’s lowest point defines its local relief; it does not represent the full country’s lowest elevation or the ascent of a long-distance trail.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 2373.8 meters at -29.497778° latitude, 29.320278° longitude. This produces about 1,106 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
Thabana Ntlenyana uses an approximately 3,480-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 1,106 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- Lesotho Tourism Development Corporation: travel investor guide
- 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 3,482-meter Lesotho tourism reference and approximately 3,480-meter model maximum retain separate provenance.
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