The following sortable tables comprise the most topographically prominent mountain peaks of greater North America. Each of these 353 summits has at least of topographic prominence.
This article defines greater North America as the portion of the continental landmass of the Americas extending westward and northward from the Isthmus of Panama plus the islands surrounding that landmass. This article defines the islands of North America to include the coastal islands of North America, the islands of the Caribbean Sea, the Lucayan Archipelago, the Bermuda Islands, the Islands of Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat), the islands of Northern Canada, the islands of Alaska, and the islands of the northeastern Pacific Ocean. The Hawaiian Islands are not included because they are considered part of Oceania. With the exceptions of North Carolina's Mount Mitchell and New Hampshire's Mount Washington, all of the ultras in the United States are found west of the 100th parallel.
Topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface. The topographic prominence of a summit is the elevation difference between that summit and the highest or key col to a higher summit. The topographic isolation of a summit is the minimum great-circle distance to a point of equal elevation.
All elevations in the 48 states of the contiguous United States include an elevation adjustment from the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29) to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). For further information, please see this United States National Geodetic Survey note. If a summit elevation or prominence has a range of values, the arithmetic mean is cited.
The majority of ultra-prominent peaks are in western North America (especially Alaska, Yukon, and British Columbia), as well as a sizeable minority of peaks along the coast of the southern half of Greenland and the northeastern part of Nunavut.
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The following sortable table comprises the 353 ultra-prominent summits of greater North America. Each of these peaks has at least of topographic prominence.
The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
Denali is one of only three summits on Earth with more than of topographic prominence. Mount Logan exceeds of prominence. Four peaks of greater North America exceed , ten exceed , 17 exceed , 34 exceed , 100 exceed , and the following 353 ultra-prominent summits exceed of topographic prominence.