World Peaks with 1000 km of Isolation

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Isolation for any given peak is defined as the distance (in miles or kilometers) from that peak to the nearest higher land. There are no peaks higher than the given summit within the circle with a radius of the isolation distance. On this web site, isolation for a peak is calculated by finding the distance to the nearest higher peak in the master database. This is an imperfect process, since not all peaks are in the database, and also because the nearest higher peak is not always the nearest higher ground.

However, the calculated isolation distances in the table above are, for the most part, usually good approximations of the true distance, and give a rough idea of how isolated a peak is from higher peaks. Isolation is a mountain yardstick that is not very correlated with elevation, since a very low peak that dominates a large flat area can have a higher isolation distance than a high, prominent peak in a rugged area.

Tiny, remote mid-oceanic islands often have very high isolation values, and this list of the most isolated peaks in the world looks kind of funny with these summits ranking very high. Therefore, the list does not assign a rank to those peaks located on islands of less than 1000 square kilometers. This excludes Terevaka (high point of Easter Island) but not Orohena on Tahiti, a much bigger island. The "IslandArea" column in the table shows the area of the islands, where appropriate, and you can select your own threshold for peak exclusion if you want to create you own rankings.

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