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Thornton Peak
- Prominence
- 1,115 m3,658 ft
- Isolation
- 29 km
- Tonight
- 13°CPartly cloudy · Wind 16 km/h E
Thornton Peak is a 1,374 m (4,508 ft) mountain in the Great Dividing Range, Queensland, Australia.
All facts
- Elevation
- 1,374 m · 4,508 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Mount Bellenden Ker (1,593 m)
- Range
- Great Dividing Range
- Region
- Queensland, Australia
- Coordinates
- 16.1643° S, 145.3740° E
Thornton Peak 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 8.4 × 8.4 km
Thornton Peak 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.
Thornton Peak elevation profile
West → east through the summit
Thornton Peak weather
Today · Rain showers · 13 / 21°C (55 / 70°F) · 1.5 mm · Wind 16 km/h E
Thornton Peak forecast for the summit, about 1,374 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 8 m.
- Today13°21°1.5 mm16 km/h EBase 21 / 29°
- Sun13°21°1.0 mm14 km/h EBase 21 / 29°
- Mon13°21°1.0 mm13 km/h SEBase 21 / 29°
- Tue15°19°6.2 mm11 km/h SEBase 24 / 28°
- Wed15°19°11.4 mm12 km/h EBase 23 / 27°
- Thu15°19°11.6 mm15 km/h SEBase 23 / 27°
- Fri15°19°4.5 mm17 km/h SEBase 23 / 27°
- Sat14°19°–12 km/h SEBase 22 / 27°
- Sun13°20°0.2 mm9 km/h EBase 22 / 28°
- Mon15°20°–10 km/h EBase 23 / 29°
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 8.4 × 8.4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.
- Steeper than 30°
- 19.4% of the 71 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,349 m low point 8 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Where Thornton Peak sits
- Range
- Great Dividing Range31
- Region
- Queensland12Australia156Oceania282
Nearby places
Walshs PyramidPeak · 922 m↑117 km SSE
Lake Eacham782 m↑128 km SSE
Mount Bartle FrerePeak · 1,611 m↑145 km SSE
More in the Great Dividing Range 6
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How accurate is this?
17 m low This 3D map reads 1,357 m at the summit; the official height is 1,374 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 1,374 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 1,357 m | -17 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 1,345 m | -29 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 2025 (scene 2025-10-22)
- 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)