Nature · Central Australia · rock and surrounding plain section
Uluru: terrain elevation and local relief
Uluru uses an approximately 856-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 343 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 856 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Central Australia · rock and surrounding plain section
- In feet, rounded
- 2,807.4 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
- 855.7 m at -25.344722°, 131.032222°.
- Local base
- 512.2 m at -25.327222°, 131.050833°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West 131.011250°, east 131.060972°; south -25.367361°, north -25.322361°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 28.0 m east-west and 30.8 m north-south. Lower and surrounding terrain omitted.
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A little more perspective
Parks Australia gives Uluru’s rise above the surrounding plain as 348 meters. Its visitor guide separately lists 863 meters above sea level. This Copernicus section reaches approximately 856 meters in EGM2008 and contains approximately 343 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. That section minimum is a recorded terrain cell, not a replacement definition for the surrounding plain. The entire image uses equal horizontal and vertical scales.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 512.2 meters at -25.327222° latitude, 131.050833° longitude. This produces about 343 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
Uluru uses an approximately 856-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 343 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- Parks Australia: Uluru
- Parks Australia: Uluru-Kata Tjuta visitor guide, elevation and rise
- 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)
Uluru’s 348-meter rise and 863-meter elevation describe different measurements; this dataset independently yields about 343 meters of bounded relief.
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