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Frenchmans Cap

1,446 m4,744 ft

Prominence: 964 m3,161 ft
Isolation: 21 km
Tonight: 2°CSleet · Wind 12 km/h W

Frenchmans Cap is a 1,446 m (4,744 ft) mountain in the West Coast Range, Tasmania, Australia.

All facts

Elevation: 1,446 m · 4,744 ft
Nearest higher peak: Castle Crag (1,482 m)
Range: West Coast Range
Region: Tasmania, Australia
Coordinates: 42.2699° S, 145.8299° E

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3D map

Frenchmans Cap 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Frenchmans Cap terrain and contours

50 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

Index contours every 250 mShowing west → east through the summit

Frenchmans Cap elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Frenchmans Cap weather

Today · Sleet at night · 2 / 11°C (36 / 52°F) · 8.7 mm · Wind 12 km/h W

Frenchmans Cap forecast for the summit, about 1,446 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 202 m.

Today2°11°8.7 mm12 km/h WBase 9 / 18°
Sun-4°3°12.4 mm15 km/h NWBase 3 / 10°
Mon-4°1°8.3 mm19 km/h WBase 4 / 9°
Tue1°1°10.0 mm19 km/h WBase 8 / 8°
Wed1°3°10.7 mm20 km/h WBase 9 / 10°
Thu0°5°0.8 mm16 km/h WBase 8 / 13°
Fri4°7°5.3 mm14 km/h NWBase 12 / 14°
Sat-1°5°8.7 mm17 km/h WBase 6 / 13°
Sun-6°5°0.1 mm12 km/h SBase 1 / 12°
Mon0°9°–11 km/h WBase 7 / 16°

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:19 UTC.

Slope

Share of the 7.8 × 7.8 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.

Gentle, 0–15°

17.0%

Moderate, 15–30°

49.3%

Steep, 30–45°

28.3%

Cliffs, 45° and over

5.4%

Steeper than 30°: 33.7% of the 61 km² view
Relief in view: 1,217 m low point 202 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 66.1%Shrubland 16.8%Grassland 15.8%Water 1.2%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 3.9 km, measured from the Frenchmans Cap summit.

Summit list 6

1Lions Head1,200 m 0.6 km NNE
2Clytemnestra1,271 m 2.0 km SSW
3Pine Knobb1,066 m 2.2 km ENE
4Sharlands Peak1,140 m 2.2 km ESE
5White Needle1,117 m 2.5 km ESE
6Philps Peak1,282 m 3.3 km ESE

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3.9 km; 107 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Pandani15
Tasmanian purple-star14
Toothed orites12
Scoparia9
King Billy pine7
Tasmanian Waratah7

Where it sits

Where Frenchmans Cap sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Dove Lake1,223 m69 km N

Downloads

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Print & wall

JPGFrenchmans Cap satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-01-18.

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GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

27 m low This 3D map reads 1,419 m at the summit; the official height is 1,446 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 35 m.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	1,446 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	1,419 m	-27 m
Copernicus GLO-90	1,411 m	-35 m

Data sources

Terrain: Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-01-18)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Accuracy comparison, Panorama: Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia