The following sortable table comprises thesevenultra-prominent summits on theislands of theCaribbean Sea. Each of these peaks has at least 1500 meters (4921 feet) oftopographic prominence. Five of these peaks rise on the island ofHispaniola (three in theDominican Republic, and two inHaiti) and one each onJamaica andCuba.
Topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the referencegeoid, a mathematical model of the Earth'ssea level as anequipotentialgravitational surface. Thetopographic prominence of asummit is the elevation difference between that summit and the highest or keycol to a higher summit. Thetopographic isolation of a summit is the minimumgreat-circle distance to a point of equal elevation.
This article defines a significant summit as a summit with at least 100 meters (328.1 feet) of topographic prominence, and a major summit as a summit with at least 500 meters (1640 feet) of topographic prominence. Anultra-prominent summit is a summit with at least 1500 meters (4921 feet) of topographic prominence.
If an elevation or prominence is calculated as a range of values, thearithmetic mean is shown.
Of these seven ultra-prominent summits of the Caribbean, three are located in the Dominican Republic, two in Haiti, and one each in Jamaica and Cuba.
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