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Peakbagging Page for Jude N. |
Personal Climb LogsThe links below take you to dynamically generated lists of Jude N.'s peakbagging activity. - Ascent List: List of Jude N.'s hikes, climbs, summits, and attempts.
- Peak List: List of distinct summits attained, with peak statistics. Includes a peak's "Personal Isolation".
- List of Lists: Peakbagging Lists that Jude N. is pursuing, showing progress for each list by number and percent of peaks climbed.
- Trip Report Index: Same as the main climb list, but only showing climbs with trip reports and/or GPS Tracks.
- Unsuccessful Ascent List: A badge of honor for real climbers--lessons learned when turning back.
- Multiple Ascents List: A listing of all peaks climbed more than once.
- Progressive Peak List: Time-ordered progressive lists for eight different metrics.
- Peak Pairs, First Ascents, and Unique Peaks: Peaks and peak pairs that no other registered site users have climbed, plus first ascents.
- Master Peak Map: Interactive worldwide map showing all peaks climbed, color-coded by elevation or prominence.
Social NetworkingReports showing a climber's buddies and other climbers. Click for More Info Personal ListsLists personally created by Jude N.. (Search for Lists from other climbers). - Personal Lists: Shows all lists created by Jude N.. Includes Query Lists created using the Query Tool, and "Pick-and-Choose" Lists created by selecting individual peaks.
- Search for Lists: Search across all lists hosted on the site, both "main" lists and those created by all climbers.
- No Wish List created yet.
Time-Period Summary ReportsThese reports show number of peaks climbed, highest point reached, and other statistics grouped by year or month. User Created Content |
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| 24. Melbourne, Australia.
Big mountains, small mountains. But mostly small mountains...
Generally speaking, information on mountain elevations and prominences around the world is of poor quality or yet to be compiled, so I aim to make some difference in this respect. I am chiefly involved in keeping the information on Australian and NZ mountains up-to-date, with a focus on applying digital elevation models and GIS to the task. If you notice differences between the elevations I supply as compared with the usual values, there are quite a few reasons why this might be.
The difficulties in ascertaining correct elevation and prominence values for peaks are multitudinous. I try to overcome these, but realistically it is not always possible. A brief list of complicating factors includes:
- Unreliable or outdated surveying
- Lack of surveying
- Surveyed elevations pertaining to artificial structures
- Multiple conflicting sources
- Lack or absence of spatial data
- Poor DEM resolution and/or accuracy
- Distinction between DSMs and DTMs
- Disagreement on conventions relating to what constitutes a "summit"
- Artificial modification of terrain
- Variation between vertical datums
- Natural terrain modification: erosion, tectonic activity, volcanic activity, glaciation, snowfall
- Climate change: rise in sea level, melting of permanent snow and ice
Digitised Greenland gazetteer. |
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