
Mountain Peaks of North America
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This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks of North America. Topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a precise mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface. Topographic prominence is the elevation difference between the summit and the highest or key col to a higher summit. Topographic isolation is the minimum great circle distance to a point of higher elevation. This article defines a major mountain peak as a summit with at least 500 metres (1640 feet) of topographic prominence. An ultra promin...
This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks of North America. Topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a precise mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface. Topographic prominence is the elevation difference between the summit and the highest or key col to a higher summit. Topographic isolation is the minimum great circle distance to a point of higher elevation. This article defines a major mountain peak as a summit with at least 500 metres (1640 feet) of topographic prominence. An ultra prominent peak is a summit with at least 1500 metres (4921 feet) of topographic prominence.