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Mount Victoria

4,038 m13,248 ft
Prominence
2,738 m8,983 ft
Isolation
at least 200 km
Tonight
0°CPartly cloudy · Wind 13 km/h SW

Mount Victoria is a 4,038 m (13,248 ft) mountain in the Owen Stanley Range, Central Province, Papua New Guinea.

All facts
Elevation
4,038 m · 13,248 ft
Range
Owen Stanley Range
Region
Central Province, Papua New Guinea
Coordinates
8.8929° S, 147.5332° E
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Mount Victoria 3D map

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Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

Mount Victoria terrain and contours

200 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 1,000 mShowing west → east through the summit

Mount Victoria elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Mount Victoria weather

Today · Light rain · 0 / 10°C (32 / 50°F) · 0.8 mm · Wind 13 km/h SW

Mount Victoria forecast for the summit, about 4,038 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 932 m.

  • Today0°10°0.8 mm13 km/h SWBase 19 / 28°
  • Sun0°10°–13 km/h SWBase 19 / 29°
  • Mon0°9°3.0 mm13 km/h SWBase 18 / 28°
  • Tue2°8°9.8 mm6 km/h NEBase 20 / 26°
  • Wed1°8°4.4 mm6 km/h NEBase 19 / 27°
  • Thu0°9°2.1 mm7 km/h NBase 19 / 28°
  • Fri1°9°3.8 mm4 km/h NBase 19 / 28°
  • Sat2°9°19.6 mm4 km/h EBase 20 / 28°
  • Sun2°8°11.4 mm3 km/h NBase 20 / 26°
  • Mon3°7°13.6 mm4 km/h SWBase 21 / 26°

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, 23:18 UTC.

Slope

Slope

Share of the 15 × 15 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly steep: more than half the view is steeper than 30°, the angle of most avalanche terrain.

Gentle, 0–15°
9.4%
Moderate, 15–30°
32.5%
Steep, 30–45°
49.7%
Cliffs, 45° and over
8.4%
Steeper than 30°
58.1% of the 225 km² view
Relief in view
3,093 m low point 932 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 94.5%Grassland 5.5%

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

Where it sits

Where Mount Victoria sits

Range
New Guinea Highlands7Bismarck Range4
Region
Papua New Guinea9Oceania282
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Mount Victoria downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

14 m low This 3D map reads 4,024 m at the summit; the official height is 4,038 m.Official 4,038 m90 m model 4,005 mThis map 4,024 m

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 33 m.

SourceSummitDifference
Official height (Wikidata)4,038 m—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)4,024 m-14 m
Copernicus GLO-904,005 m-33 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.
Land cover
© ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts
Wikidata (CC0)
Summits
© OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
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