World's 25 Highest Mountains
Project #1642 on iSENSEProject.org
Description
The data for this project was taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_peaks_by_prominence
Latitude and Longitude pairs were found by doing a search in Google
ex: "latitude and longitude of mt. mckinley"
The coordinates came up on the search screen
Terms to know: (from wikipedia site listed above)
The prominence of a peak is the minimum height of climb to the summit on any route from a higher peak, or from sea level if there is no higher peak. The lowest point on that route is the col. It is a measure of the independence of a summit.
Height refers to the height above sea level.https://www.eskimo.com/~rachford/mountaineering/essays/prominence.html
Guiding Questions:
1. What is the most prominent mountain?
2. What is the least prominent mountain?
3. Which continent contains the highest number of the top 25 most prominent mountains?
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Col
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Prominence
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Our Data
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| Latitude | Longitude | Continent | Country | Col | Prominence | Height | Name |