1. Isolation table

2. Examples

3. Gallery

4. See also

5. External links

The topographic isolation of a summit is the minimum great-circle distance to a point of equal elevation, representing a radius of dominance in which the peak is the highest point. It can be calculated for small hills and islands as well as for major mountain peaks, and can even be calculated for submarine summits.

Isolation table

The following sortable table lists the Earth's 40 most topographically isolated summits.

Examples

• The nearest peak to Germany's highest mountain, the 2,962-metre-high Zugspitze, that has a 2962-metre-contour is the Zwölferkogel ({{Höhe|2988}}) in Austria's Stubai Alps. The distance between the Zugspitze and this contour is 25.8 km; the Zugspitze is thus the highest peak for a radius of 25.8 km around. Its isolation is thus 25.8 km.
• Because there are no higher mountains than Mount Everest, it has no definitive isolation. Many sources list its isolation as the circumference of the earth over the poles or – questionably, because there is no agreed definition – as half the earth's circumference.
• After Mount Everest, Aconcagua, the highest mountain of the American continents, has the greatest isolation of all mountains. There is no higher land for 16,534 kilometres when its height is first exceeded by Tirich Mir in the Hindu Kush.
• Mont Blanc is the highest mountain of the Alps. The geographically nearest higher mountains are all in the Caucasus. Kukurtlu (4,912 m), which rises near Mount Elbrus (5,633 m), is the reference peak for Mont Blanc.
• Musala is the highest peak in Rila mountain, and also in Bulgaria and the Balkan Peninsula, standing at 2,925 m (9,596 ft) it is the 4th most topographically isolated peak in Continental Europe.^[1]. Rila is the 6th highest mountain in Europe. With a topographic prominence of 2473 m, Musala is also the 6th highest peak by topographic prominence in mainland Europe.^[2]

Gallery

See also

• Table of the most isolated major summits of North America
  • Table of the most isolated major summits of the United States
  • Most isolated mountain peaks of Canada
  • Most isolated mountain peaks of Mexico
• geodesy
• physical geography
• summit (topography)
• topographic elevation
• topographic prominence
• topography

External links

• bivouac.com Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia
• peakbagger.com
• peaklist.org
• peakware.com World Mountain Encyclopedia
• summitpost.org

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