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This dry prominence is greater than Everest's height above sea level of 8,848.86 m (29,032 ft), and some authorities have labeled Mauna Kea the tallest mountain in the world, from its underwater base. [a] Mauna Kea is ranked 8th by topographic isolation. [citation needed]
The submerged mountain is about 200 meters taller from base to peak than Mount Olympus, and roughly four times the size of the tallest building in the world (Dubai’s Burj Khalifa), according to ...
An underwater mountain taller than the world’s highest building has been ... recent satellite-based estimates indicate there are more than 100,000 unexplored seamounts taller than 1,000 meters. ...
Tallest mountain base-to-peak on land [15] [n 3] Mount Everest: 3.6 to 4.6 km (2.2 to 2.9 mi) [16] 0.072: tectonic: 4.6 km on north face, 3.6 km on south face; [n 4] highest elevation (8.8 km) above sea level, as well as by wet and dry prominence (but not among the tallest from base to peak, and in distance to Earth's center Mt Chimborazo rises ...
The main part of Tamu's rounded dome extends over an area of 450 km × 650 km (280 mi × 400 mi), totaling more than 292,500 km 2 (112,900 sq mi), many times larger than Mauna Loa, which has an area of 5,000 km 2 (1,900 sq mi), and about half the area of the Martian volcano Olympus Mons. [a] The entire mass of Tamu consists of basalt.
A team of oceanographers led by Schmidt Ocean Institute have discovered and mapped a new seamount on the Nazca Ridge 900 miles off the coast of Chile.
The tallest mountain in the Hawaii chain, Mauna Kea, rises 4,205 meters (13,796 ft) above mean sea level. Measured from its base on the seafloor, it is the world's tallest mountain, at 10,203 meters (33,474 ft); Mount Everest rises 8,848 meters (29,029 ft) above sea level. [ 66 ]
The underwater mountain is nearly 2 miles tall and supports a thriving deep-sea ecosystem, including a pristine coral garden the size of three tennis courts as well as a sponge garden, Virmani said.