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The table below lists the highest 100 summits with at least 500 m (1,640 ft) prominence, approximating a 7% relative prominence. A drawback of a prominence-based list is that it may exclude well-known or spectacular mountains that are connected via a high ridge to a taller summit, such as Eiger, Nuptse or Annapurna IV. A few such peaks and ...
For a complete list of mountains over 7200 m high, with at least 500 m of prominence, see List of highest mountains. See also a list of mountains ranked by prominence . 8,000 metres
The 104 major 4000-meter summits of the United States (including two on the Pacific Island of Hawaiʻi and six shared with Canada.) The 67 fourteeners of the contiguous United States (peaks with at least 14,000 feet (4,267.2 m) of elevation and 300 feet (91.44 m) of topographic prominence ), including:
Of the 50 most prominent summits of the United States, only Denali exceeds 5000 meters (16,404 feet) of topographic prominence, three peaks exceed 4000 meters (13,123 feet), ten peaks exceed 3000 meters (9843 feet), 45 peaks exceed 2000 meters (6562 feet), and all 50 peaks exceed 1932 meters (6339 feet) of topographic prominence.
Other countries with high low points include Rwanda 950 metres (3,117 ft) and Andorra 840 metres (2,756 ft). Countries with very low high points include Maldives 5 metres (16 ft), Tuvalu, 5 metres (16 ft) and the Marshall Islands 10 metres (33 ft). These island countries also have the smallest range between their lowest (sea level) and highest ...
21 meters – height of High Force waterfall in England; 30.5 meters – length of the lion's mane jellyfish, the largest jellyfish in the world; 33 meters – length of a blue whale, [128] the largest animal on earth, living or extinct, in terms of mass; 39 meters – length of a Supersaurus, the longest-known dinosaur and longest vertebrate [129]
The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings. [4] [3] The topographic isolation (or radius of dominance) of a summit measures how far the summit lies from its nearest point of equal elevation. [5] In the United States, only McKinley exceeds 6000 meters
Regions on the Earth's surface (or in its atmosphere) that are high above mean sea level are referred to as high altitude. High altitude is sometimes defined to begin at 2,400 meters (8,000 ft) above sea level. [8] [9] [10] At high altitude, atmospheric pressure is lower than that at sea level. This is due to two competing physical effects ...